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Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-25
LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
NOW But A MEMORY
LAST OF OCEAN PARK CASES
DISMISSED
Men Indicted by Grand Jury on Charge
of Registering Falsely Gain
Liberty by Courts
Order

The last six of the twenty-five or
more illegal registration cases were
Yesterday dismissed by Judge Conrey
on motion of the district attrney, ana
SO far as the legal proceedings in the
superior court in connection with the
di5incorporation election at ocean
Park are concerned they are but
memory. II.
nents returned by the grand jury not
one conviction followed, the majority
Of the cases being dismissed on the
ground that there was not sufficient
evidence to convict.
The cases dismissed yesterday were
those against bennett Childs, VIII
liam F. Winter, Edward X. Maler,
Wiliiam Fl. Haszard, Joseph Shelley
and Frank Case.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-25
OPEN BIDS FOR EQUIPPiNG
TEHACHAPI CEMENT PLANT

Bids were opeied by tine board of
public works yesterday for forwarding
portions of machinery for the city S
cement plant at Tehachapi.
Some of the machinery has been de-
uvered to the plant at intervals cs
needed recently.
The bidding is done on schedule
and no result will be announced until
the aqueduct board hes figured the
averages after freight hauls and other
items are compared.
Work on the new plant, where most
of the cement for the owens river
aqueduct will be made, is going ahead
rapidly.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-25
DRAW UP CONTRACTS FOR
NEW OWENS VALLEY LINE
Southern Pscific and City Officials
Sign Papers Providing for Con-
struction of Aqueduct
Freight Route

Contracts were signed yesterday by
members of the board public works
and officials of the Southern Pacific
railroad for the transportation OF
freight for the Los Angeles-Owens
river aqueduct construction work.
The contract provides that the Jaw
hone canyon branch of the new line
from Mojave to Keeler aust be com
pleted within two months, ana the
remainder of the line, aralleling the
hig conduit, in sections at stated in
teryals extending over a period Of two
years.
Construction operations have already
been started on the line by the COM
pany. surveyors having been sent over
the route over year ago; hence city
officials look for no hitch in the work.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-25
BEAUTIFUL FLORAL TRIBUTES
GIVEN AT LAST RITES

The funeral of Mrs. Bertha, Jacoby,
wife of Nathaniel Jacoby, was largely
attended yesterday afternoon at the
family home. 7S9 South Hope street.
DR.. S. Hecht, rabbi of the Temple
B'nai Birth, officiated, delivering an
elouuent eulogy over the life of the
dead wife and mother.
Two large wagons were required TO
transfer the many beautiful floral Of
ferings to the Home of Peace cemetery,
where interment was made.
The following acted as pail bearers;
Ben Meyer, Dan L. BroWnsteln, Her
man Levey, John Kahn, Herman Cohn
and Leo Barnett.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-25
FUNERAL OF GEN. JOHNSON
TO BE HELD THIS MORNING

The funeral of Gen. e. o. Johnson
will be held this morning at 1880
o'clock from the family residence, 83S
West Twenty-eighth street, Rev. Will
Knighten to officiate. The interment
will be in Rosedale cemetery.
The following will act as honorary
pail bearers: Judge ]. S. Chapman,
Capt. A. C. Jones, Capt. H. q. Osborne,
Maj. ]. A. Druffil, Col w. G. Conklin,
j. A. Fairchild, Judge Bicknell, DR..
]. H. Utley, Judge j. A. Shankland.
former Governor Markham, Sumner P.
Vickers, ]. M. Elliott. C. M. Wood, N.
B. Blackstone, DR.. c. e. Case, H. Jew
ne, John H. Norton, Henry O'Melveny,
Gen. Mathews, j. H. Hibbard, Judge
M. P. Allen. Judge B. N. Smith and
Charles Prayer.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-25
Meeting Postponed

Meeting Postponed
The regular meeting of the Los An
geles Political Equality league mas
been postponed from this AFTERNOON at
the Woman's club house on t1gueroa
street to the afternoon of May 8, at the
same time and place.
Banquet Postponed
The committee on the proposed BAN
Duet to have been given by the Soutn-
ern California Rod and Reel club TO
President David Starr Jordan OF stan
ford university Wednesday, April ~,
has found 1t necessary to postpone
the dinner until some date to be an
nounced in the future.
viii Elect Delegates
The Lincoln Roosevelt league of the
Seventy first district will meet tonight
at Masonic hall, Thirty-third and Main
street, to elect delegates to the state
convention of the league.
Monday evening party Will go To
Pasadena to attend meeting of the
league there, which Is a preliminary
to the primary work.
Body to Be Taken East
Mrs. Sara H. Jones died yesterday
morning at the home of her nephew,
DR.. Elbert Wing, 2156 West Adams
street. Mrs. Jones was aged so years
and had been i'll some time. The body
will be taken east for interment. Flu
neral services will be held here before
leaving for the east, the time not
having been decided.
Standard Has Local Office
What is considered another move on
the part of the Standard Oil to enter
the producing business in California
is the arrival of Colonel j. ]. Carter,
head of the oil producing department of
that trust in Los Angeles. 1t is said
that he comes to direct the develop
ments of new fields of the Standard In
California, particularly in Monterey
and San Benito counties.
Cut in Second Class Fares
There will be a cut in second class
fares on railroads from the Missouri
river west commencing May l. None
will be sold under $40. Although abol-
ished to Utah and Colorado points, the
secnd class rate will be continued to
the Pacific coast. AS the second class
rate from the Missouri river to Los
Angeles is just $40. this point will not
be affected by the order.
Is Preliminary Committee Only
The committee named by the cham
ber of commerce. Merchants and Man.
ufacturers' association and Municipal
league to investigate the financial ad-
ministration of the city schools is but
a preliminary body, as 1t were, the idea
being to have this committee meet
next week and make plan of investi-
cation and then await action to be
taken by another committee appointed
later.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-25

tract with the Metropolitan company
to sweep the principal streets, in which
it was stipulated that 100 teams should
be used in the work.
A year later the city notified the
company that eighty teams should be
used thereafter, and the suit to COM
pei the city to live up to the contract
was filed.
In it's answer the city claims the
company all along had been using
but eighty teams.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-25
MISS BOWLING DIES AT
COLORADO SPRINGS RESORT

Word has been received of the death
of Miss Lillian r. Dowling, daughter
of Rev. George Thomas Dowling, for
rnerly rector of Christ Episcopal
church, Los Angeles, now of st. James
church, New York city. The deatn
occurred at Colorado Springs April IL.
Miss Bowling had been i'll for long
time and was at the health resort for
the recovery of her health.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-25
CITY'S STAND UPHELD
BY JUDGE IN DECISION
Suit of Company Against Los Angeles
Will Probably Be Dropped.
Seeks to Have Contract
Lived Up To

A decision which practically means
a. victory for the city in the suit OF
the Metropolitan Contracting company
against the municipality was rendered
Yesterday by Judge Houser of the
superior court when a demurrer OF
the comnanv to the citys answer to
the complaint was overruled.
In 1905 the city entered into a con-
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-25
SENTENCED ON CHARGE OF
ROBBING HIS BENEFACTOR

After having received food and shell
ter for more than two weeks from
Charles Morrison, Ernest Valchair is
said to have showed his appreciation
by robbing his benefactor of 500. VAL
chair was arraigned in police court on
the charge of stealing the money and
was sentenced to forty days in the city
iail
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-25

Another continuance was granted
yesterday by Judge Wilbur in the case
of E. r. Farnsworth, charged with
robbing Bullocks department store In
December last. Farnsworth's trial Is
now set for Monday.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-25

Gerald F. Muir, who pleaded guilty
on Wednesday to the charge of pass
ing a fictitious check, was yesterday
placed on probation for three years by
Judge Wilbur.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-25

Mrs. Eunice Ball was yesterday
granted Judgment for $4141 by Judge
Houser as a result of her suit against
the Los Angeles Railway company, in
which she sought to recover $13,750 on
account Of injuries sustained February
8, 1906, when her automobile struck a
wire hanging from trolley pole.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-25
COURT NOTES

John Inmon, charged with bigamy,
yesterday pleaded guilty before Judge
Wilbur, and an application for pro-
baton was filed. The case was con-
tinued until May 1.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-25
Sunday Excursions

Tn, Southern Pacific sells tickets at half
rates 70 al. points east as far Beaumont
and return good only on Sunday. also on Santa
Ana branch Fare TO Riverside and Redlands
and return, Through the Orange Groves" :"
20 * Reaumont s245, and others Informa-
t,on nj city ticket office, 600 South Spring
street corner Sixth. Arcade station.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-25

Following a hearing in the case in
which Mrs. Mary Brinckman is seek
ing to again secure her 10-year-old
boy, Robert Brinckman, who was placed
in the custody of the Childrens Home
society by his mother, Judge Wilbur
yesterday continued the case until
next Friday. The mother said she be-
lieyed she could have the boy returned
to her at any time inside of year
when she placed him in the home.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-25

The seventy-five or more cases
growing out of the insolvency of the
Western Hotel company year ago, all
of which are in the nature of mechanic
lien suits, have been set for trial be-
ginning June by Judge James. The
suits aggregate about $150,000.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-25

Judge James yesterday affirmed the
Judgment of Justice Stephens in the
suit of Justice H. A. Pierce against
the county for rent of his court room
on New High street. Justice Pierce
sued for and obtained Judgment for
S299
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-25

THE beautiful fireproof HOTEL
GREEN in Pasadena is worthy of q
visit.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-25
THE CITY

Strangers are invited to visit the exnloi.s
OF California products at the ChamDer W
Commerce building. on Broadway, oess~,or
First and Second streets where free ILL., a1n
nation will be given on all subjects per'@'"'
ing to this &c -tion.
The Herald will pay $40 In casn 70 to
one Furnishing evidence that will lead 10
the arrest and conviction of any person pnr
caught stealing copies Of The Heraio Afoi
the premises of our patrons
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-25

II YOU want to go east. C. Haydock
Agent Illinois Central r. r., 118 W. 9Th.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-23
4 BACKWARD RACE FOR LIFE
raearrRs THRILLING

chine. 1t was like being chased by
spook, and it felt more like it when it
go so close / could see into her cab
but couldn't make out sign of life
within it. She wasn't more than train
length from us when my fireman
yelled:
Its no use, Cap; I'm goin' to
jump
''All right. jim. I hollered, good
luck to you. I'll stick while longer
Poor JIM That was his last Jump.
L made up my mind that I'd stay to the
last minute, and that seemed to be only
few seconds away. She was only
hundred feet away now, and l. got in
position to desert the ship. But ! new
er did like to leap from a train gOin'
fifty miles an hour. and so l hesitated
still. Then, as | stood with my eyes
glued on that crazy locomotive, | no.
ticed something that made me drop
back into the cab from sheer weakness.
But it wasn't terror that caused it. 1t
was joy. We We're holding our dis
lance. And as / recovered my nerve /
saw that we were slowly, very slowly,
/ pulling away from her. | knew what
was the matter. Her steam was Civ
| ing out. 1t was a hot old race, but /
| had won, and while my machine was
swaying from side to side 1 was jump
| ing up and down in my cab all by my
self and shouting: Glory, halelujah!
After that it was simply a matter
of keeping away from the runaway,
and gradually its pace got slower and
slower. until finally it came to a full
stop within sight of the telegraph sta
ton. As soon as l could get my train
to standstill. | jumped out of my cab
and ran ahead to the dead engine.
found The engine Was not the only
thing dead there. Stretched out on the
floor of the cab was the body of d man
with a revolver clasped in enc hand
and bullet hole Though his brain.
knew every engineer and fireman on
the road. but this man was stranger
to me. Judging from his dress and APP
ipearance he was not a railroad man al
all.
with the help of the telegraph OPP
erator-I was the only man left on the
whole train, all the rest had dropped
by the wayside as we started back
coupled onto the dead engine, put hel
on the sidetrack and reported to the
train dispatcher for orders. Without
explaining the mystery, he instructed
me to pull ahead, pick up my crew ano
passengers and proceed to Cheyenne
/ which ! did. though l had to get
[ brakeman to fire for me, for all tina
was left of Jim was put in the bag
gage ear.
"I didn't find out the cause of thu
trouble until we got to Kimbali. Their
I learned that the station agent, wh'
was also the operator, had got into al
, alteration with a stranger and hat
been fatally stabbed. The strange
: had been captured with the blood.
knife in his hands and preparations 70
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-23
THEATRES TODAY.
ceNAToR LA FoLLErTE's BILL.

Senator LaFOllette of Wisconsin IN
troduced last week in the upper house
of congress a measure which he be-
leves viii go a long way towards set
Ting the tariff problem. The measure
provides for the appointment of a
tariff commission of nine members, one
10 be selected from each OF the United
States judicial circuits. and not more
than five to be of any one political
T, rty. One member must be skilled in
manufacturing, one must have
knowledge of agriculture, one of i'm
ports, one a representative of labor,
one lawyer with special knowledge of
tariff laws. one expert in tariff and re-
ciprocity, one with knowledge of pro-
duction and accounting and one 'emi-
nent economist and one student Of
foreign markets.
The most important provision of
the nil is that giving the president. on
the recommendation of the commits
sion, the power to suspend any tariff
schedule and to admit free of duty
any article controlled by a cOmbina-
ton sufficiently strong to dominate the
home or foreign markets, TO limit pro-
duction or control the price of labor.
The first appointments are to be made
so that the term of one member will
expire every year. After eleven years
the commissioners are TO have terms
of ten years each, but there will be
expirations almost annually.
The purpose of the bill is to take
the tariff question as nearly out of
politics as possible, but it will fail. A
change of national administration
would inevitably result in a change in
the political complexion of the COM
mission. A tariff reform president
would see to it that a majority of the
commission would be made up of tariff
reformers. and a protectionist presi-
dent would have men of his own be-
lief on the commission. The limita-
lions on the appointments are wise
hut they would not have the effect OF
removing the commission from poll
tics.
The way to revise the tariff sched-
ules is to revise them There is mighty
little hope for revisionists in the Re-
publican party. The recent test in
Iowa between the Allison and the
Cummins forces shows that Cum
Minis, the most prominent revisionist
in the Republican party, was defeated
by more than 100 votes in the state
convention. The Republicans are fonC
of talking about revising the tariff
but they never seem 10 get about the
work. And they never Will. The only
way to secure an overhauling of tn,
schedules is to elect a Democrats
president and a congress of the sam,
political faith.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-23
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
Chicago News.)


Some marble cutters are monumental
liars III -,
' Success seldom comes to a man who
isn't expecting IT.
After calling a prisoner down the JuuSe
is apt to send him up
It's easier for a woman TO hold
strong man than her own tongue
A man is as anxious TO make money as
a woman is to spend il.
People who make fools OF themselves
never fail TO attract attention.
Lengthenlng a girls dresses means
shortening Of bapas bank balance
The average husband takes his wlte
advice-around the corner and loses il.
While the conservative man waits the
hustler gets busy and goes after the
goods.
It's tough on a man with chronic
thirst to be compelled to swallow his
. If it wasn't for the optimist the pessl-
mist would never know how happy he
isn't.
The bachelor who takes unto himself
wife gives up the simple for the siren
uous life.
The woman who marries for money
usually gets what she went after. but its
different with a man.
When a mans dog turns against him
it is time for his wife to pack her trunk
and go home to mamma
1t takes woman to sit down and cry
when she happens to think what hard
time her children might have had if some
other woman had been their mother
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an immediate lynching had been made
Suddenly he broke away from his cap
tors. jumped aboard an engine that was
standing, with steam up, on the main
track-the crew being at lunch-puiled
open the throttle and in no time was
whirling across the prairie. A hundred
shots were fred at him as he ran and
after he mounted the engine. Whether
one of these latter shots hit him or
whether he fired the ball through his
own brain was never made certain.
Nor did anyone ever find out who ne
was or where he came from. But the
death of the operator prevented any re-
port from going over the wires and
the train dispatcher was in blisstul ls-
norance until made my report
Now" concluded the trainmaster'
sif that had been any other than q
prairie country there would most GER
tainly have been collision and great
loss of life, and yet no one could have
foreseen such an emergency anu ~
safety device would have prevented the
calamity"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-23

Francisco and studied conditions there
has written glowing tribute to the
rageous san .Franciscans. Twenty
eight thousand buildings were de-
stroyed by the great FIRE and earth
quake two years ago next month.
Acres upon acres of the finest bust
ness property i'm the city, or, indeed.
in all the west, were laid in ruins. The
buildings destroyed represented a to-
tai value of approximately Sl05,00O,OO0
and their contents were worth several
times that amount of money.
Today, .1wenty-three months after
the disaster, 10000 new buildings have
been constructed at a total cost of
Sill GOO. 600. OF this vast sum OF
money ali except $4,000, 900 was raised
in the city of San Francisco. The
10000 new buildings contain more
floor space for business purposes than
the 2s, 900 that were destroyed" In
other words. the new buildings are
bigger and better and in every way
more desirable than the old ones. The
NlllSl NhOSN itPolh W AiN'f~ DNN-A
reading may well say they have
achieved a great undertaking that will
remain a part of the national pride of
Americans
OF course, a great deal remains to
be done, but if the present rate of pro-
gress is maintained, and there are rea-
sons for believing that it will be, the
last remaining scars of the calamity
of April IS, 1906. Will have been oblite-
rated by the time five years more
have passed And yet there were peo-
pie who, after viewing the ruins OF
San Francisco, declared that the city
could not be rebuilt in less thar
twenty-five years. Some went so fal
as to predict that it would never BIZ
rebuilt.
The doleful prophets did not reckon
with the indomitable American spiri
that the people of San Francisco arr
blessed with to a degree that is mos
unusual, even in this country. The.
are entitled to congratulations on thu
progress made and to the cordial goo,
wishes of all true Americans for it
continuance.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-23
cNew Work Times0


The death of Tom Hatfield. the IA
mons mountain feudist, at Louisa, NJ
makes about the sixtieth victim OF .iN
Hatfield Mccoy feud. that began totty-N
eight wears. as the result of one. OF the
MCCOY razor-back pigs swimming rug
river from the Mccoy place on the
Kentucky side to the ancestral hoiAe
of the Hatfields in West Virginia rom
Hatfield a descendant OF the terri
bic Devil Anse" Hatfield, was tile u.e
member Of that murderous FANNY VINO
had been supposed to have charmed
life. He always escaped without
scratch in the scores of murderOus bat
ties between the Hatfield and MCCOY
clans.
As they tell it on the Tug river, the
war between the Hatfields and McCoys
began Just before the outbreak OF the
civil war, and it all started over me
ownership of a Kentucky razor-oach
hog. ,.,,..
boat with razor backs that were con-
| signed to a Cincinnati pork packer
when one of the pigs jumped over inc
| boat railing into Tug river ana swan
straight for Hatfield territory. me
! Mccoy negroes were sent over 10 cap
/ t,lre the pig. but they soon returned
and told old Randolph Mccoy. the hea0
/ of the Mccoy clan, that the Hatileiu
/ negroes had chased the animal INTO
ravine and held Il. Old Rand SEM
word to "Anse" Hatfield that he want
/ ed his hog back.
/ IF Won think you have boys enough
J "Od Anse'' sent word back, why
don't You come and get the old pig?
Civil War Delays the Feud.
! II is said that the McCoys were lay
ing out a plan Of battle for the re
CAPTURE % the pig when the news INA,
/ tbe civil war was on reached the Wes
VIRGINIA Kentucky mountains. All th'
Mc(vovS shOuIdered their guns ana en-
listed for The south. as did most OF th'
Hatfields. Some Of the Hatfields. now
ever it is said, fought for the union
/ When the war ended the hathelu'
that had not been killed in battle ah'
the surviving McCoys came pack
! their homes. the Hatfields to the Yves
VIRGINIA side and the McCoys TO TN
Ie7tuckv side of the Tug river an'
the incident of the pig. as was RAPID
lv proved. had not been forgotten.
Soon after the warning families re
turned there was an election in Yves
Virginia. and the McCOys went acros
the river to help one of the candidates
In the. course of the day three of IN
Mccoy bows. the youngest only 10 ant
the eldest about 20 years, met some O
the Hatfields. one of whom was ia
Anse" There was a fight, and Whel
if was over. Anse was dead from thirty
one stab wounds. Later the Hatred
cantured the three McCOys, took ther
to a secluded spot, tied them 10 trees
: ana shot them dead
The McCoys being KentucKians IN
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-23
SAN FRANCISCO RECOVERING.

The public has heard a lot during
the last year or so about the grating
that has been going on in san Fran
cisco. and news of that character has
taken precedence OF everything else
that has come from the stricken city
out there by the Golden Gate. We have
heard little of the patient. earnest, en-
during and often heartbreaking as
well as backbreaking work that the
people of San Francisco are doing to-
wards the rebuilding of their city. The
black cloud of graft has obscured their
endeavors. has measurabl shut them
off from the public view. but 1t has
been going steadily on, nevertheless,
and the results show for themselves
A writer who recently visited san
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-23
Terms of subscription.

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SUNDAY-One year, S2.O. $500, ora
SEMI : WEEKIY-1n advance). one
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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-23
oBsERVANT CHILD.
(Punch)

(Punch.)
Peggy-Was that p'liceman ever a
little baby, mother?
Mother-Why, yes, dear.
Peggy Choughtfully)-I don't blleVe
I've ever seen a baby p'licemani