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Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-27
PARTY LINE TELEPHONE
STARTS LIVELY FEUD

Special to The Herald.
ALGONA, Iowa, July 26.-Gossip over
q party telephone line, alleged personal
remarks made about neighbors, and too
persistent listening by people on the line
have resulted in a battle, caused seri-
Gus feud in Kossuth county, and doubt
less will end in a long drawn out battle
in the courts.
Numbers of the farmers in that vicinity
are members of a rural mutual telephone
exchange and their houses are connected
on the same wire. 1t is alleged that
good deal of gossiping has gone on over
this wire and that some of the people
gossiped about have overheard remarks
calculated to arouse their ire. The
trouble became so pronounced that 1T was
decided to hold a meeting of the sub
scribers and adopt rules restricting the
condolences to be impaired over the tele-
phone.
But this meeting, instead of helping
matters, had the reverse effect. Follow
ing heated arguments and acrimonious
retorts the gathering ended in free
for-all fight. The meeting was held in
the district school house, and the fight
which was started here continued OUT
side and number of blackened eyes
and dlsfigured countenances resulted.
Lifelong friendships have been broken,
relatives have become estranged and 1t is
said that a dozen lawsuits will result
from the feud.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-27
AUDITOR GATHERS
IN MORE SHEKELS
WILL ENFORCE ALL EXISTING
LICENSE ORDINANCES
Declares Municipality Will Be En-
riched 100000 Annually If COL
Iector Gets Busy-Puts Issue
Before Council

Believing that 100000 a year can be
added to the citys revenues if all the
license ordinances are enforced, City
Auditor W. c. Mushet has put a force of
deputies to work to overhaul the ordi-
nances and has sent notices to those af-
fected to come to the city hall and pay
up their delinquencies.
Those who refuse will be proceeded
against by the city attorneys office.
Some days ago office building owners
were notified that an old ordinance puts
a charge of 81 a year for every room
in their buildings rented out as offices.
These men have since formed an organ
ization, one of the objects of which, 1t is
stated is to oppose 1.-The city's conten-
ton Collector Johnson has stated that
because former City Attorney w. B.
Mathews gave him verbal opinion that
section "a was equivalent to double as
sessment he failed to enforce it.
Banks are not paying as much as they
should, the auditor says. Licenses of
from $40 to $50 a month. according to
loans and discounts, are to be taxed.
The banks have replied in many cases
that they are perfectly willing to pay
any legal license.
Only about half of the insurance agents
are paying licenses, it is stated.
The table water companies are nearly
all delinquent.
Clairvoyants, fortune telers and spook-
lists by the score have defed the efforts
Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-27
VAULTS TO RUNAWAY'S
BACK AND STOPS HIM
Group of Children in Danger When
Dohrenwend Uses old CattIe=
mems TASTES and
Saves Them
Special to The Herald.

Special to The Herald.
NEW YORK, July 26.-Rough rider
methods were employed yesterday by
Gustav Dohrenwend of BAL East Twenty
sixth street to stop a runaway horse
which endangered the lives of a group
of children in dash of more than six
blocks. Attached to a light express
wagon of the Elite Laundry company OF
81 East Twenty-second street the animal.
while standing in front of the laundry,
was frightened by the siren horn OF
big automobile.
At full speed the horse ran eastward.
Policemen Murtha and Elliott of the East
Twenty-second street station gave chase,
but were left behind. The animal turned
north at First avenue and at Twenty
sixth street came in collision with a
truck of the Matthew Soda Water COM
pany and another of the Long Island
Express company.
With wreckage dangling at its heels the
runaway was almost upon a crowd of
children in Twenty-siXth street when
Dohrenwend, who had at one time been
a cattleman, jumped to the animals
back. He grasped the horse by the nos
trils, leaning far over, and soon brought
the runaway to a standstill by half
choking it.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-27
DAN CUPID CALLS 1T OFF
ON THESE BARGAIN BRIDES
CAN'T COME UP TO THEIR HIGH
FIGURES
Indiana Girls Society Demands Guar
anteed Value of $4,000 from Their
Husbands and Marriages
Grow Fewer
Special to The Herald.

Special to The Herald.
COLUMBIA, Ind, July 26.-Young wo-
men in Columbia, Jasonville and Hymera
have formed what they call the young
Ladies Protective Societies" and plan tt
establish branches all over the state.
The members will insist on knowing
how prospective husbands are fixed finan-
cially, and will refuse to be converted
by young men who cannot furnish sat
isfactory commercial rating.
The young man who would woo men,
ber of the society must furnish docu-
mentary proof that he has goods and
chattels to the value of $4,000, and carries
a life insurance policy for at least $1,000.
With $1,000 in available assets and $4,000
in futures the Y. l.. P. S. girls will pay
attention to proposals.
The promoters of the organization say
they have observed that the most fire.
quent cause of unhappy marriages is
poverty. Announcement of the purposes
of the society is said to be producing
good effect in the towns where branches
have been established Life insurance
solicitors are indorsing the movement.
1t is likely that a "s15OO club will be
formed by girls who are not quite so
exacting and several young men say
they're waiting for a $500 club to be or
ganized.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-27
WELL BAKED PIE SAVES
SOULS, SAYS WOMAN
Good Cooking and Prayer Are Related,
Asserts Philadelphia to Dea-
conesses-Make Your
Gowns Fit

Special to The Herald.
CHICAGO, July 22.-'Between good
pie and a prayer meeting there is a close
relation said Miss Bertha Fowler of
Philadelphia at the Natioral Deaconess'
convention, held in the Grace Methodist
Episcopal church.
ITO know how to cook a, rood meal
often makes possible the saving OF q
soul; what deaconesses do. they ought
to do WELL" she continued, addressing
the deaconesses.
"If you are to sew and make dresses,
do not be satisfied with something that
will just do but sew the dress well;
make it fit and hang right. 1t will give
you the respect of young people, whom
you are trying to win for the right.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-27
HENS WOULD LAY ONLY
BY LANTERN LIGHT
Special to The Herald.

special Inc t1eTdlu.
M'KEEVER, N. Y, July 26.-Hiram
Scott believes he has solved the vexa-
tious problem of making hens lay eggs
when they don't want to. If he has, a
road to wealth is open to farmers, for
there are times in the winter when eggs
are worth 45 cents a dozen. He certainly
made his biddies come to the scratch and
profted thereby.
The discovery was largely due to acci-
dent but if Mr.. Scott hadn't been an
observing kind of man he would still be
minus the great secret. One night last
winter when his hens couldn't be coaxed
to perform their duty, he left lantern
hanging in his henhouse and forgot 1t.
Next morning he was shocked to find the
light still burning, for the lantern had
little oil in it and might have blown up.
Such things have happened.
But the farmer had a great surprise
in store for him. All the hens cackled,
and in their nests were dozen hne
white eggs. 1t was plain that twelve of
the eighteen hens had laid in the night,
and as they hadn't accomplished such
feat in a month, he judged the lantern
had something to do with 1t. Whether II
was the added warmth or the rays of
light, he didn't know, but 1t was plain
that the eggs had been laid.
Next night the lantern, we'll filled with
oil, was left in the same place, and more
eggs were laid. The following night the
lantern was not lighted, and not an egg
greeted Mr.. SCOTS gaze in the morning.
It having been thus established that the
hens wouldn't lay except under artificial
light, the lantern was thereafter PROVIDED.
Mr.. Scott says that his hens are dopey
aav times and sleep most of the period
between sunrise and sunset. but that they
appear healthy and robust
Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-27
S1,5OO,OOO DROPS, AND
HIS LEG is BROKEN
Fortune Falls on Treasury Department
EmpIoye and He's in Hospital.
Rolls In Great
Wealth
Special to The Herald.

Special to The Herald.
WASHINGTON, July 26.-Wouldr't II
lar you if packages containing $I5OO,OO'
should fall on you, break your leg and you
should be separated from the pile and
sent to the emergency hospital for treat
ment?
This is the misfortune that befell James
r. Brown, an employe of the treasury de-
partment, who is now laid up for repairs.
The large iron van used for transporting
bank notes from the bureau of printing
and engraving, Uncle Sans money fac
tory, reached the treasury department
with a large load of brand new gold GER
tifioates and greenbacks.
The notes were done up in small pack
ages for convenience in handling. The
81 100000 was loaded on a truck, and
Brown helped to shove the truck to a
vault, where the money was stored. The
packages toppled and fell from the truck,
burying Brown beneath a fortune. He
was literally rolling in wealth for a few
minutes.
When Browns associates extricated him
from beneath the packages of money they
found he had broken leg.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-27
MILLIONAIRE BUYS BARN
DOOR FROM SENTIMENT
Daniel G. Reid Recalls Boyhood Days
When His Father "lnter-
viewed" Him with
ShingIe
Special to The Herald.

Special to The Herald.
RICHMOND, Ind. July 26,-Daniel G.
Reid once lived on farm here. He was
not poor, neither was he rich, but he
moved away, went to New York and ac-
cumulated his milliors in the steel and
railway business. He is building place
second to none in America at Richmond
terrace, on the Hudson. Last week he
revisited the scene of his childhood.
He entered the old barn on the farm
where he was raised and found carved
deep in the oaken door panel the iri-
tia;s I'd. G. r." which he had cut there
when a youth. He bought the door, had
it carefully Grated and shipped to his
New York estate house, where it will oc-
cupy a prominent place.
hSome of the happiest days of my life
were spent in that old barn" he said;
"and there were some that weren't so
pleasant when my father used to inter-
view me with a birch or the business
end of a shingle."
Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-27

entirely to the men, but now women
have been added, This calls for decisive
action, say those in control. So the police
were given special orders today to keep
a lookout for those who pooh-pooh con-
ventional bathing garb and officers car
ried out instructions to the letter. Even,
1t is said, that some of the women who
disported themselves in this highly un-
usual manner are prominent socially; but
this is discredited.
Their names are unknown, but sleuths
are on the trail. In the meantime large
crowds gather at the beach to see just
what the manner of fun this is that is so
seriously objected to.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-27
NEGRO LAWYER DEFENDS
JANIT0R Of HIS RACE
John T. Blackburn, Former City En,-
pIoye, Is Held to Face Superior
Court on Charge of
Forgery

With one of his own race as an attor-
new to defend him, John T. Blackburn, a
negro, formerly janitor of the city hall,
was given his preliminary examination
on a charge of forgery before Justice
Chambers yesterday afternoon.
Charles Darden, the lawyer, did his
best to have his client discharged, but the
court thought that the evidence OF gullt
was sufficient to warrant binding him
over to the superior court for trial Bail
was fiedx at $500.
The chief witness in the case was Wal
ter Mallard, the city assessor, whose
name was on the check that led to Black
burns arrest.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-27
POLICE ORDERED TO
BAR WATER NYMPHS
Shocking Reports Reach Pine Creek
Regarding Bathing Costumes.
Women Are In-
cIuded
Special to The Herald.

Special to The Herald
JERSEY SHORE, Pa, July 26.-water
nymphs and sirens must go. They might
have been hit in Greece in the old days
of high art, when they frolicked in bab-
bling fountains, sounding fiute-like notes
on a flageolet or mouth-harp, but. as
far as Jersey Shore and Pine Creek are
concerned, they are doomed.
The authorities have so declared, and
husky police officers, with a keen sense
of the fitness of things, will see that the
order is carried out.
Shocking reports of carelessness re-
garding bathing suits here have bobbed
nm from time to time. The costumes
worn by these frolicsome bathers have
been the cause of complaint In fact,
the costumes have been overlooked en-
tirely. and it is this that the town author
tiles object to.
Passengers on the trains and trolley
cars passing the river have told stories,
whereby they gazed with a dread curios-
lty on the water frolics Time was when
the Garden of Eden effect was confined
Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-27
HERRING CARRY A BOAT
ON THEIR BACKS A MILE
Special to The Herald.

SpeClaI 10 nt IIOE II'I'
BALTIMORE, Md, July 14.-The latest
fish story to come in is that OF James
Maddox, a fisherman, who was caught IN
the midst of a large school OF herring IN
Gunpowder river, and claims tnat ms poa!
was fairly carried along on the backs OF
the fish.
According to Maddox, despite his eff
forts at the oars, he was carried nearly
a mile out of his course before he sue
ceeded In extricating his boat from the
school. In one haul of big 6OO-fathom
seine so many herring were surrounded
that IL was impossible to land the seine.
Schools of herring moving into the head
waters of Chesapeake bay to spawn are
now SO thick that they dam the rivers
and rowboats cannot get through them.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-27
RABBIT HUNT BLOCKS
PHILADELPHIA CARS
Special to The Herald.

PHILADELPHIA July 26. Rabbit hunting
in Walnut street is a rather unusual sport
and very inconvenient for the Rapid Transit
company.
A tame bunny that was being carried alont
the street by a well-dressed young woman
jumped out of its protectors arms in from
of the ST. James hotel and ran under th'
trucks of a North Nineteenth street car
The woman shTieked and the car stopped
Traffic was heavy just then, for it was get
ting close to o'clock, but everything wa
held up for the rabbit. Trolley crews am
pedestrians Joined in the hunt with poles AM
brooms and the cars were blocked as Ia
down as Tenth street.
BY any by the rabbit hoped out, and wa
caught up by its grateful mistress, wh
thanked the motorman and hurried away.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-27
A NIemorabIe Day

One of the days we remember with
pleasure, as we'll as with profit to our
health, is the one on which we became
acquainted with DR.. Kings New Life
Pills, the painless purifiers that cure
headachs and biliousness, and keep the
bowels right. 25c at Dean Drug Co.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-27

of the city to enforce payments for prac-
ticing their profession. Many of them
seek refuge behind the cloak that they
are teaching religious cults.
Billiard and pool rooms are also on the
list.
Auditor Mushet said yesterday his
business was to get all the money that
was due the city and he would do it. If
the city council did not want to enforce
these laws it's duty was to repeal them.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-27
Homeseekers. Club Toniabt.

Every one desiring to secure farm homd
in California is invited to the meeting at
o'clock this evening in Home Extension Hail.
Chamber Of Commerce. Fourth new town and
COLONY now being formed, also the Los Ange-
les Acre Lot Club Land distributed at whole
sale to members. Come and learn.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-27

.'Its remarkable how often woman
changes her mind"
"Oh, not always. There's one idea
every woman gets that she never
changes"
'"The idea that she's pretty."--Cath-
olic Standard.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-27

she-They've been married for nearly
two months and she's not a bit Jealous
He-No wonder. Their fiat is so small
that there isn't even room for suspicion.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-27

BECAUSE HE CAN'T COME DOWN.
MIS-. Spender-My husband has race
horse, an auto, a yacht, and l suppose
the next hing he'll have balloon.
Golde Bonds-Yes; guess he'll go up
all right If he keeps on.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-27
Csc Beach Hats
s TO 10 TODAY.

Beach hats, sunbonnets, this morning, IL styles
many patterns; this sale of outing headgear fortu-
nately comes the right day of the week; tne
values 25c and soc; to 10 they Will be on SAFE
at 10c
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1907-08-27
UMPIRE DOES UP
CAUsT|C R0OTER
tFrom Mondays Advertiser,

(F'rom Mondays Advertiser.)
Fernandez did better than Hampton,
at the Riverside League games yes
terday. He waited till the games were
over and then in his unofficial capa-
city he hunted up the obnoxious root
er, and did him up.
He did it in the presence of ap-
plauding thousands, and was then
caught up bodily by the admiring Riv-
erside League and carried on their
shoulders to his car. Vierra, who
was done up, washed the blood from
his face at one of the taps on the
Aala Park green sward, and walked
of unescorted in the other direction.
Vierra, who recently returned from
the Coast after an unsuccessful at
vaudeville circuit, has made a practise
lately Of making himself conspicuous
at the Riverside games by his crit
icisms and denunciations. of, players
and umpire. Yesterday he was espe-
cially Objectionable in his remarks
addessed to Eddie Fernandez, the UNI
pire. Finally Fernandez thought he
was not called on to quietly endure
the remarks addressed to him and told
Vierra that If he didn't keep quiet he
would put him off the grounds. vier-
ra retorted that 1t was public park
and that Fernandez could not put him
off.
Nothing further was said at that
time. but when the game was ended,
and Fernandez ceased to be an off,
cial, but resumed his status as a citi-
zen, he went right up to Vierra, and
any preliminary parley, let
out right and left at Vierra. vierra
defended himself, but he was not a
match for Fernandez, and he suffered
a bad punmellipg-
The excitement in the crowd was
intense. The people surged round the
two combatants, but it was over
quickly. The crowd nearly to a man
took sides with Fernandez, and when
he finally desisted from his attentions
to Vierra, the members of the River
side League or some of them picked
him up on their shoulders and carried
him to King street where he took a
ear for home. While they waited for
the car, hundreds gathered round and
,heered Justify for the fighting umpire.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1907-08-27
TOMMY BURNS
FIRST SCRAP

Now that Tommy Burns has jumped
into the limelight by banishing the
scrappy reputation of the Australian
lemon, Tommy has seen fit to launch
forth, for the benefit of the world, the
story of how he discovered that he
could fight. Here it is just as Tommy
tells it:
81 was working on a steamboat and
as the chief engineer used to lick one
of the crew each day to digest his
lunch had to take my medicine. The
engineer came up to me one day with
honeyed words upon his lips.
"'Now you darned cub of a she
skunk, stand up and fight
''Then he nailed me square between
the eyes. Down 1 went like a bull
that is pole axed. The man fell on
me like a mad dog. We wrestled and
fought on the floor and rolled to the
lurch of the steamer. At last loosen
ed his grip and staggered to my feet.
1 knew nothing of boxing, but
thoughts of my course of action came
to me quick. Three times 1 ducked
under his wild rushes and left and
right swings for my jaw. Each time
as 1 stopped under them I poked my
left hand hard and stiff into his wind.
This pulled him up blowing hard. I
was growing cooler and felt good, but
for sensation like paper burning in
my nostrils, the effect of that treach-
erous first smack between the eyes.
We began to spar. Suddenly he step
ped in and swung a wicked right hook
for my jaw. I took it on my left
arm, and as he fell into me over went
my right hand straight from the
shoulder. 1t landed fair on the corner
of his long, bony chin. He dropped
like a man that is shot through the
heart. When he came round, ten min
utes later, he tainted again. His ca
reer as bully was ended. The crew
was delighted. AS for me I had found
the punch" l~1-
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1907-08-27
DENIES CLAIM Of
RECONVEYANCE

Cecil Brown, as administrator of the
estate of Elizabeth Wright, deceased,
has filed an answer to the suit in
equity brought against him as such
administrator jointly with John Has
kins, Jane Franklin and Susan How
ard, the sisters and brother of the
deceased.
The bill alleges that John Wright
being in the fear and expectation of
death in May, 1906, conveyed all his
property, which included a fine line
of local securities, and some choice
real estate, to his wife, with the un-
Outstanding that it was to be hers IL
he died but If he got we'll she was to
reconvey it. He recovered from the
illness but has been so i'll in body and
mind since that he never thought to
ask his wife to reconvey the property
to him, and last January, contrary
to all expectations, she suddenly died.
Now her brother who lives in England,
and her sisters who live in Philadel-
phia, under the statute of descent will
get most of the property.
Brown, as administrator, in his an
swer, admits the fear and expectation
of death, the recovery from dangerous
sickness, and the succeeding illness of
body and mind, and the conveyance
of the property to his wife. But he
denies that there was any condition
OF reconveyance, or that after the re-
covery from serious illness there was
any request for a reconveyance.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1907-08-27
RACE ACROSS OCEAN.

NEW YORK, Aug. 13.-What prom
Uses to be the most exciting steamship
race in many years, will be run be-
tween the Lusitania, the biggest ship
in the world, and the Lucania, holder
of the record between Queenstown and
a one thousand mile course, did % IL
knots for an average hourly speed.
The Lueania has made the fastest
trip ever recorded between Queenstown
and New York-fve days seven hours
and twenty-three minutes-which rec
ord she made when Horatio Mckay
commanded her.
The Cunard Line has arranged the
sailing of the ships from Liverpool
on September Z. to ascertain by how
much time the Lusitania will beat the
Lucania.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1907-08-27
NOTES OF THE GAME.

Jack Desha made a pretty recovery
and throw in the second inning. He
has been improving in his game all
through the season.
When Dave Desha shouted to Reuter-
to throw his grounder to third in the
fourth inning, as he was hurrying to
first. he nearly had the big pitcher of
the Kams ratified.
Kia made a pretty one-handed catch
of Lota's fly to short-right in the
fourth. He played a good game all
through.
Evers made a beautiful stop. Of
Olmos' grounder over second, in the
second inning, robbing that player of
a hit.
Ayletts long run and catch of
Crooks drive to left-center was one of
the features of the day.
The Diamond Heads missed a num-
Der of beautiful chances to score in
the first part of the game. They SEEM
ed to play like wooden Indians at
times.
Bert Bower has umpired through the
season in a manner which has salts
fed both players and spectators. He
is one of the best men with an indi-
Gator who could be found in the Unit
ed States.
1t is doubtful If A. L. Castle will be
seen in the box for the Puns again,
unless he shows a desire to take part
in practise when the other players do.
The applause of two spectators when
Berger played the famous "Katzen-
hammer March" was not appreciated
by the waver of the baton. There is
not much to be said in favor of his
music at the ball games. When the
band plays no one can hear anything
else unless they are as far away as
Thomas Square.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1907-08-27
.CHAMBERLAIN's collie. CHOLERA
AND DIARRHOEA REMEDY.

There Is probably no medicine made
that is relied upon with more implicit
confidence than Chamberlain's Collie,
ing the third of century In which 1t
ing in third of a century in which II
has been in use, people have learned
that 1t is the one remedy that never
fails. When reduced with water and
sweetened it Is pleasant to take. Sold
by ali dealers. Benson. Smith & Co.,
Ltd, agents for Hawaii.