Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-20
UNSEEMLY RIOT
SHOCKS SPIRITS
OF THE DEFUNCT
DREADFUL SCENES NOTED AT
SP00K COLONY
ATTENDANTS AT DANCES SADLY
WANTING I'M pEcoRUM
Sober Residents of Glendale shlver
Over Sound of Revolver Shots,
and Whisky Drinking Is
ScandaIous

Well, nobody seems to know how it
started. Fact is, things had been bub-
bling SO long that they didn't really
need anything but a slight excuse to
bubble over. And bubble over they did
with seething sibilation that sent
the shades of all the famous Caesars
| and the ghosts of our grandsires scam
pering to the tall timber.
There's bunch of tall timber in
the vicinity of the Semi-tropic Spiritual
association park at Edendale. Thereby
is suspended the narrative.
According to stockholders in the
| Semi -tropic Spiritual park, the tall
timber surrounding this noted rendez-
vous of table-tippers and slate-scrib-
blers is romantically full of narratives
affecting the trustees Of the associa-
tion and-as Elbert Hubbard would
say-"some other folk"
| Dire, dark and dreadful are the tales
of misadventure and nocturnal
''doin's" which emanate from the va
| rious cottages occupied by anti-fake
spiritualists in the vicinity of the wood
| ed park.
According to these dissatisfied stock
| holders, who must purchase stock in
| the Semi-tropic Spiritual (or Spiritual
Seini-tropic) Park association before
they can enjoy (?( the privilege Of
! living therein.
The semi-tropic Spiritual Association
park last Saturday night developed
warmth decidedly more than semi
| tropic. 1t was real tropic. Just what
effect this may have had on the spirits
| is not stated by the conscientious con-
| noisseurs in spookism; but there evil
1 IDENTIFY were too many-or too much
spirits in the park. And thereby hangs
| another narrative.
| The Semi-tropic Association park,
about midnight last Saturday--if one
may accept the statements of the oc-
cult oracles and second-sight experts
residing observation-disclosures exception
ally hot. 1t approached degree OF
caloric intensity like unto the habitat
of the bad spirits, or akin to Yuma on
q cool day. AS a consequence. the
dance suddenly was broken up and
sputy John Thorne, much noted for
his physical prowess, now goeth about
with dropping head and hand
| swathed In sbandages
Incidentally he wears a ouft-plastef
dhough not courting further trouble)
over his left eye.
1t Is recorded by the Semi-tropic
Spiritual association that Thorne at
tempted TO preside over the destfnies
of an Inflated dance at the big hall
dedicated to the dead and living.
When saen yesterday Thorne ap-
i peared even as one who is undecided in
which realm ne is located. There was
a far look in his eyes-or in one OF
them-but the expression of his face
or that portion of it which was visible
-presaged an anxiety for a material
istic combat with something or some-
what of which he was uncertain. He
stated, in suppressed tones. that he
was ''out for scalps."
Row Starts Over Dance
All this, it is said. because the afore-
said Deputy Sheriff Thorne attempted
to remonstrate-or something to that
effect-with certain of the alleged spir-
/ itual devotees of the light fantastic
Also, because he failed to count the
lineup of the opopsition.-
This opposition, Mr.. Thorne states,
had been communing with bottled
spirits until it could not trip the light
fantastic Enthusiastically. although some
did trip-over-after assaulting Thorne
with fists and a gun, and producing
the previously described effects. They
also took trip poSt-haste TO the tall
timber, since their disappearance into
which they have not been located.
While this melee was going on it is
estimated tnat, at least, three-fourths
of all the spirits nthe ground also
ducked At any rate in number OF
homes thereabouts, following the melee,
it is said the usual seances failed to
materialize any of the dear departed.
But even if the spirits fail ever TO
~
Sheriff Thorne has blood in his eye.
Not so much blood as he had after the
Saturday night melee, but blood that
has different meaning, though not so
plentiful. 1t is ominous blood, and in
] dieates that he is on the trail of the
Semi-tropic park dance rowdies who
are accused of having made the long
nights hideous with their howls and
gun plays in vicinity of the dance hall.
Anti-fake Spiritualists, who bought
homes in the park in the bellies that 1t
4 was to be conducted under the direct
approval of the state society, licensed
organization, have dropped away from
the dances one by one, until now, 1t Is
claimed, the park auditorium and
dance pavilion are patronized almost
spookists, hand-holders, myopic Sec
ond sighters and similar alleged graft
ers in the high art of mento-psycho-
hypno-magnetic two-world wireless
telepathy, etc.
The charge of gross misconduct is
made by many of the stockholders,
i chief among whom are Mr.. and Mrs.
A. s. H. Patterson. The latter is d
licensed physician and president of the
i State Spiritualists' association, a wo-
man who is generally considered sim
cere and high authority on what Is
going on behind the scenes IN spook-
4 dom.
Her husband. william Patterson. is
/ very pronounced in his criticism of the
policy with which the Semi-tropic
Spiritual association park resort is be-
ing conducted. He declares the trus-
/ tees of the Semi-tropic. etc. associa-
tion have allowed everything to fall
into the hands of one A. B. Kennedy,
who, assisted by Peter and Ernest
| Kennedy and one Ward. floor manager
of the famous Saturday night dances,
is running the thing "for what there Is
In it."
An admission fee of 25 cents is
charged, but 1t is claimed there is no
| discrimination as to who is admitted
to the dances. According to some
there are many evidences OF immortality
at the dance hall every Saturday
night
Whisky is taken to the place in big
TASKS, It Is said, and men become
drunk, swear and do other things cali
culated. to disturb everything but Ken
/ nedy. All the residents about the park
lCentlnued on Pnge xhEee)