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Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-05-01
RELIGIOUS
A Ten Month Kansas Revival.

"A Ten Month Kansas Revival.
Plans are already matured for a
state wide revival on the simultaneous
plan in Kansas beginning with Sep
TENDER next. Every town is to have its
own evangelist at the same time under
the general guidance of DR.. w. q. Bic
derwolf, who has been identified with
the Philadelphia movement. Co-opera-
ton and concentration will be tho
watchword, and thirteen denominat lions
have leagued to make the revival a
success.
Church Ban on Big Hats.
In several prominent churches Of
Burlington, N. j., it is proposed to re-
quire women who wear the latest style
of absurdly wide hats to remove them
before entering the sacred precincts.
A Catholic Centennial.
In commemoration of the centennial
Of the archdiocese of Philadelphia the
entire Catholic hierarchy of this coun-
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-05-01

in hand and will not have to borrow.
The first half of the plant is now I'M
der construction and will be done in
three years.
s4o,ooo,ooo Loan For P. r. r.
The Pennsylvania railroad has ar
ranged for the issue of long term bonds
to the amount Of $4O,O0O,oO0 to be
known as consolidated mortgage bonds
to run forty years and bear 4 per cent
interest. The issue is underwritten by
Kuhn, Loeb g. Co. Of New York in as
ISOLATION with the Rothschilds and
Earrings of London.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-05-01

Go iii.to any community and find the
newspaper that is known to be in close
affiliation with The corporations and
with grafters in Office and that fights
the efforts of good citizens for better
government, and you will find a news
paper that does not approve of the in
itiative and referendum and recall. 3
Los Angeles Municipal Affairs.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-05-01

the faction led
by McCarren has
called a confer
ence in the hope
Of having o pro-
test con yention
W Ii ic b might
send a contest
ing delegation to
Denver. The fact
that Bryan is to
be in control of
the Democratic
national commit
tee which will
pass upon con-
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-05-01

\ letIc 1eat IN THIS
country saw the race, more than AGO.
600 people lining the course.
Thomas Car Leaves Seattle.
The American Thomas automobile
which has led all the way so far in the
New York Paris race left Seattle April
p on the steamship shawmut for ia
pan.
Disastrous Texas Floods.
The floods in Texas continued Mon
day and Tuesday, with additional fa-
talities and loss of cattle and other
property valued at more than million
dollars. i
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-05-01

present nnanclal de-
preston the work
on the great steel
plant at Gary, ILL.,,
will go on and that
the total expendi-
ture will approx
mate 100000, 600.
or this sum already
$24, 900, 600 has been
spent. He says they
will go ahead be-
cause they are con-
vinced that the de
preston will MOI
last and because
they have the cash
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-05-01

of an amazing jug
gle Of funds, in
which vast sums
were disbursed to
both political par
ties, and admits the
dishonesty Of these
acts, but finds that
under the laws in
force at the time Of
the acts no crime
wascommitted tech
nically. The evil
dence has been
made public. At the
request Of the late
William G. Whit
nov cEn 00n roc
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-05-01
E x ECU TIV E
Liability Bill sianed.

e
Attorney General Bonaparte having
convinced the president that the new
employers liability law enacted by the
present congress would not be over
turned by the supreme court, the presi-
dent signed it.
Los Angeles Welcomes Fleet.
From San Diego the Pacific battle.
ship feet sailed along close to the
shore SO the thousands of people could
see the ships and reached Los Angeles
on the 18th. There the feet separated
into four divisions to enter as many
separate harbors, whence the tars
swarmed ashore to be lionized by the
visiting thousands and the other thou
sands. Banquets and balls were then
in order for several days and all kinds
Of amusements.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-05-01
KEEPING Tab
ON THE World.

Publication Of Grand Jury Evil
dence Reveals Ryan's Astound-
ing Confession Of New York
Traction Funds Used to Defeat
Bryan and Given to Both Par
ties, but No Indictment Is Re-
turned Bryan Avoids New
York Faction Quarrel and At
tacks Socialism - Taft and
Bryan Claim Nomination on
First BaIIot-LiabiIity Law
signed-cannon Passes Paper
Probe.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-05-01

try were invited
to take part in
a celebration Of
splendid proper
tons beginning
April II with an
outdoor process
sion Of prelates
and celebration
of mass by the
papal delegate,
M6l. Il ulCOulO, Al
t b e cathedral.
Archbishop Ry-
an of Philadel-
phia was the cen
trail figure Of the
celebration. and
to him was sent
ILL., N
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-05-01
The Paper Trust and Its Customers

The Paper Trust and Its Customers.
The Republicans in congress are be-
tween the devil of the paper trust and
deep sea of newspaper Indignation.
The newspapers demand repeal of the
the tariff on wood pulp and print paper,
and the trust needs this tariff in
its business. How to satisfy the news
papers without offending the trust, is
the problem. But the Republican ma
chine is as usual equal to the emergen-
cy. 1t decides to retain the tariff for
the benefit of the trust, and to prose-
cute the trust for the amusement Of
the newspapers. The Public.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-05-01
LEGAL CRIMINAL
amt Indiet Traction JussIers.

Can't Indict Traction JussIers.
The special grand jury at New York.
which has investigated the charges
against Thomas f. Ryan and other Off
GERS of the Metropolitan Street Rail-
way company in connection with the
purchase of the ferries paper railway
from Anthony Brady, reports the facts
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-05-01
POLITICAL
New York Democratic Row.

New York Democratic Row.
Since the Democratic state conven-
ton at New York, which showed that
Charles f, Murphy, the leader of Tam
many Hall, had suddenly become the
"boss" of the entire state organization,
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-05-01


self eligible for the
American team In
the Olympic games
atLondon this sum.
mer. He ran the
distance in 2 hours
25 minutes and 43
seconds. The larg-
est crowd that ever
witnessed an ath-
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-05-01
COMMERCIAL

Steel Trusts Faith In Future.
Chairman Gary of the board of d.
rectors Of the United States Steel cor
poration says that in the face of the
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-05-01
MISCELLANEOUS

Winner Of Marathon Race.
Thomas P. Morrissey Of Yonkers,
N. Y. won the twenty-five mile Mara
thon running race at Boston April 20.
leading a field Of 125 and making him.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-05-01

Why do you still keepyour
money' hid in a sack or DO
in the attic or in a tin can
under the barn?
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-19
ASK SUPPRESSION OF
DISORDERLY HOUSES
PETITION FILED FROM BUENA
VISTA STREET
Property Owners Assert That Number
of Objectionable Houses Is ln-
creasing at Prodigious
Rate

More "redlight' trouble was piled uI
for the mayor and his police commits
sion yesterday when a petition intro
Quoted by A. E. Weiss, as secretary OF
the Buena Vista street improvement
association, and, among many others,
bearing the signatures of Bishop T. j.
Conaty and f. M. Coulter, was filed
with the police commission asking that
the disreputable houses on Bellevue,
New High, San Fernando, Marches
sault and at the corner of Ord and
New High streets be suppressed.
When the petition was read to the
commission it was referred to the COM
mittee of the whole.
The petition had nothing to say OF
the moral aspect of the matter, but put
it's demands on the practical grounds
that the houses were a great annoy
ance to people living in the vicinity,
and similar establishments were grow
ing rapidly.
Bellevue, New High and San Fer
nando streets are the only outlets to
the cast part of the city. All Gar
vanza and Highland Park, Colegrove,
Hollywood and northern route Santa
Monica cars are compelled to go
through this district, and all persons
living in the eastern and northwest
ern parts of the city must pass through
these streets in order to reach the
business district.
These streets are just over the fine
from the places that have been tacitly
recognized as segregated for disorderly
houses, and, if such places must exist
the damaged property owners are
anxious that they be put into the spe-
cial section.
A. E. Weiss, who presented the pc
tition to the board, stated that the
rapid increase of such places on these
streets alarmed the property owners
He declared that a year ago there
were only two houses in this entire
district known to be of i'll repute, while
today there are thirty-two houses sc
known, while there may be more that
do not make themselves so conspicu-
Gus. He says people passing through
the district, especially young women
are insulted by the men who gather
around these places.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-19
LIBRARY BOARD HAS FUN
WITH EMPLOYEES THREATS
Treat as a Joke Miss BIandy's Asser-
tions That She Will Bring Charges
Before the Civil Service
Commission

The threats of Miss Julia w. Blandy,
superintendent of branch libraries, to
bring charges before the civil service
commission against the members of
the library board for ignoring certain
demands she has made, are treated as
a joke by the members of the library
board.
The civil service commission has alb
solutely no jurisdiction over the board
or any of its members. They are ap-
pointed by the mayor, with the con-
firmation of the council, and to the
mayor alone they are responsible. If
Miss Blandy has any charges to make
she must file them with the mayor.
Miss Blandy has taken the attitude
that her work is hampered because the
library directors have failed to accede
to certain of her demands, and she feels
very much grieved over the matter.
She has been a thorn in the flesh of
the library since she entered a year
ago. She lived in New York and wrote
to Librarian Lummis for place in the
library. Mr. Lummis was impressed
with her letter, and said if she would
come to Los Angeles he would do what
he could for her She came and was
given an emergency appointment. Lat
er a special civil service examination
was held for her benefit, and she was
made a permanent member of the Ii
brary staff. The other employees threat
ened to strike, declaring the action fa
voritism and a violation of the civil
service spirit.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-19
POLICE FORCE MAY
BE DEPLETED AGAIN
THIRTY OFFICERS LIKELY TO
BE DISCHARGED
Commission Signs Heavily When 1t
Receives Notification from the City
Auditor of Restricted Finan-
ciaI Conditions

With the police force already de-
pleted by the discharge of twenty-five
men. in order that the department
might keep within it's appropriation,
thirty more men must be discharged
during the next few weeks in order that
the salary allowance may not be over
drawn.
The police department is allowed but
$3.50 500 this year for salaries. This is
$31, 900 less than the amount required to
pay the present force during the COM
ing fiscal year, and for this reason
thirty men, each drawing $1,000 a year,
must be discharged.
When the final trimming is made
there will be 260 policemen on duty
According to civil service rules the last
men put on the force must go first.
This matter was brought to the atten-
ton of the police commission yesterday
through a formal notice sent by the
auditor that the allowance for out
lays, including a new roof and plumb
ing in the central Jail and improve
ments at the workhouse, was S10,500;
S3S9, 500 for salaries and wages and $780,,
600 for other expenses. The commits
sion also was notified that it would not
be allowed to eXpend more than one
twelfth of these amounts during any
one fiscal year, unless the council spe-
officially gave permission in advance.
The notification was received by the
commission with a deep sigh, and the
board will meet with the city auditor
and finance committee as soon as the
auditor returns from his vacation and
see If something cannot be done so
that the force will not have to be
trimmed so close.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-19
CITY HALL NOTES

w. w. Middlecoff petitioned the po-
lice commission yesterday to stop the
automobile speeding on Alvarado, be-
tween Seventh and Pico. The mayor
named Commissioner Woodill as q
committee of one to interview his
mother, who lives at Tenth and AL
varado, and learn from her If the
speeding was as bad as was stated.
George NJ. Cake, former manager of
the Democratic club. gave up his spe-
cial star yesterday.
A volunteer police patrol and vol
unteer fire department is what Los
Angeles will need if the finance COM
mittee does not open the city's purse
strings a little wider to these depart
ments, according to Mayor Harper.
A petition was presented to the police
board yesterday asking that Mrs. Mary
H. White be appointed to a position
in the city's secret service. No woman
detective is now employed by the city.
The petition was referred to the chief.
NJ Derpich, 109 West Seventh, and
Rudolph Gahm, 126 East Seventh, were
cited to appear before the police COM
mission at its next regular meeting and
show cause why their restaurant liquor
licenses should not be revoked. Both
are accused of having sold liquor dur
ing the hours the polls were open,
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the police commission.
The board of public works yesterday
advertised for bids for the Main street
bridge. The engineers office is now
working on plans and specifications
for the Buena Vista street viaduct.
For the first time the Southern Pa
cific broke it's rule yesterday and
signed a petition for pool room IL
cense for Gradnego & Franklin, 461
Central avenue. 1t has been the policy
of the Southern Pacific to sign no Pc
tition for or against anything, but, as
the railroad owned most of the 'front.'
age where it was proposed to estab-
lish the billiard room and the law re-
quires the signatures of three-fourths
of the frontage, it was impossible for
the petition to be granted without this
signature. R. c. Guirado, who owns
III feet in the block, made mild pro-
test but said he didn't care very
much, so the petition was granted.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-19
UNION OIL COMPANY ASKS
PIPE LINE FRANCHISES
Wants Privilege of Laying Conduits
In Four Places and Demands
Removal of Restrictions
on ManhoIes

The Union Oil company has asked
the city council to grant it franchise
for oil pipe lines from the corner of
College and San Fernando streets, along
San Fernando, Alameda, Sixth, Mateo
and Willow to the Santa Fe railroad
tracks, and on Alameda, from Palmet-
to through Mateo and Wells. on Also
from Alameda to the railroad, and on
Fourth from Also to Central.
In addition to demanding these fran
chises, it asks that the ordinance regu-
lating the laying of oil pipe lines be
so changed as to permit them to place
manholes wherever they choose. The
ordinance now forbids manholes closer
than every ten blocks.
This application is in the hands of
Councilman Healy of the Eighth ward,
in whose district it is proposed to lay
these pipe lines.
The Santa Fe has asked a franchise
for a spur track in Alamo street, east
from it's right of way to the ware
houses of A. A. Coldwell.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-19
DRENCHED WITH HER HOSE,
SHE NOW WANTS REVENGE
Mrs. Burton Thinks involuntary Bath
Good Cause for Charge of Battery,
Although Mrs. Fife Says
She Was Justified

Mrs. Marie Fife of 754 East Pico
street, accused by her next door neigh
Dor, Mrs. Lizzie Burton, of having
drenched the latter with her own gar
den hose, appeared in Police Justice
Roses court yesterday morning and
pleaded not guilty to a charge of bat
terry. She will appear for trial to-
morrow and was released upon her own
recognizance.
Mrs. Fife declares she was justified
in turning the hose on her neighbor
She asserts that while she was en-
joying a warm bath in her home Mrs
Burton approached the window of the
bath room and, thrusting the nozzle
so that it pointed full at the bather,
turned loose a stream of icy water.
Then, it is declared, Mrs. Fife hur-
riedly dressed and went over to where
Mrs. Burton was watering her lawn
took the hose away from her and gave
Mrs. Burton a dose of her own medi-
cine
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-19
MUNICIPAL AFFAIRS =: =
.SWEEPINGS NET TIDY
INCOME TO THE CITY
FORMER COST OF REMOVAL
NOW ABOLISHED
Twenty Dollars a Day Saved, and Adj
ditional Economy Effected as
Regards Ashes of Gar
bage Incinerator

BY engendering a little rivalry be-
tween the fertilizer companies the
..oard of public works has been able
to get a revenue from the street sweep
ings that formerly were carted away
and dumped of about $500 monthly
enough to pay the salaries of two mem
bers of the board.
No monoy Is actually paid to the city
by the ]. F. Jackson Fertilizer COM
pany. which gets the sweepings, but
the revenue comes through the saw
ing to the city of the amount formerly
paid to gether them into wagons and
carry them away. By permit granted
by the board of public works the jack
son company gathers up the sweepings
in it's own wagons, with its own men.
The city formerly was compelled to
pay $40 daily for this part of the
work.
After the white brigade has thor
oughly cleaned the streets and brushed
the sweepings into little piles, the
wagons of the Jackson company take
them away and make them into fer
tilizer.
Owing to the fact that the paved
streets are flushed every night there is
but little dust in the sweepings, and
the material gathered is almost pure
fertilizer. For this reason the COM
panies dealing in this material are
anxious to make a good bargain with
the city, and it was by exciting them
to rivalry that the board was able to
save the city $40 daily.
A small revenue. the exact amount of
which it is difficult to estimate, is
also obtained from the ashes of the
garbage incinerator. These ashes are
sifted by a private firm for fertilizer
and the city receives a percentage of
the amount realized by its sale. Not
only is the city paid for the fertilizer,
but the ashes, after being sifted, are
carted away free of expense. The
amount earned and saved has been a
little more than $50 monthly, but now
that dead horses are being incinerated
with the garbage the amount is largely
increased.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-19
CHIN CHUNG SEES THINGS
ENTERING THIS COUNTRY
Chinese Held for Illegal Residence
Tells Federal Commission of Giant
MeMcans with Flaming Hair
and Green Eyes

If there are any upheavals in the
vicinity of the graves of Baron Mum
chausen and Ananias, the fact can be
attributed to the tales of Chin Chung,
a Chinese, who is being tried before
Commissioner Williams of the federal
court on the charge of being illegally
in the United States and whose testi-
nony regarding the circumstances lead
ing up to his capture is enough to
cause the ancient relaters of fiction to
turn in their graves.
Chung was arrested two months age
with six other Chinese in an automo-
bile near Santa Ana while en- route
from Ensenada to Los Angeles. The
party is supposed to have slipped across
the boundary line into this country
Chung declares the men who brought
the party through were two Mexicans
of enormous size. He said both had
bright red hair and mustaches of the
same hue and their eyes were deer
green. He said he saw many women
in Mexico who had green eyes. Chung
testified that they Travelled by night
and hid during daylight.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-19
NO HALF MEASURES
ON BLASTING ASKED
VICTOR HEIGHTS CITIZENS
OPPOSE COMPROMISE
Want Police Commission to Stop II
Entirely or Leave Them to Sue
Los Angeles Brick
Company

mo compromise" is the slogan
adopted by the residents and property
owners of Victor Heights whose homes
are being jolted to pieces by the blasts
of dynamite set off by the Los Angeles
Brick company
IF you cannot suppress this nuisance
altogether do not do anything about II
that will legalize these blasts and
jeopardize our chances in other courts, -
was the way c. II. Sprading put the
matter to the police commission yes
terday. 1t was taken as a suggestion
that if a permit to continue the blast
ing was given to the Los Angeles Brick
company by the police board the prop
erty owners would fight the corporation
through the courts in order to save
their homes.
1t was finally agreed that a commit
tee of citizens of Victor Heights and an
equal number from the brick company
would meet with the police commission
Friday afternoon, when the matter will
be talked over and an effort made at
settlement. 1t is evident that the prop
erty owners affected will accept moth
ing but an absolute stopping of the
blasts.
This matter has been before the police
commission several weeks. The prop
erty owners on a tract known as Vic
tor Heights complained to the board
that the dynamiting done by the Los
Angeles Brick company in Chavez
ravine back of their homes, was crack
ing the plaster on their walls and caus-
ing their houses to settle to such an
extent that they could not open the
doors. The mayor and two members of
the police commission visited the place
last Friday and felt some Of the blasts.
They were unanimously of the opinion
that something would have to be done,
and a compromise whereby the brick
company would be permitted to touch
off only small blasts was suggested.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-19
OBJECTS TO MANNER IN
WHICH STREETS ARE OILED
Attorney Protests to Board of Public
Works Against "SIoppy, SloVenly,
Slouchy" Methods at Pres
ent Employed

r. w. Richardson of the law firm of
Richardson & Martin has entered an
emphatic protest with the board of
public works against what he calls 1.-The
sloppy, slovenly, slouchy, miserable
method of pouring oil on the public
thoroughfares."
While it is supposed to lay the dust,
he says, it accomplishes more damage
of a disagreeable character than all the
dust it can possibly dispose of. The oil
is tracked into the homes, to the ruin
alton of rugs, carpets and clothing.
He specifically points to Moneta ave-
nue., which, he says, for two months
has been sloppy mess, yet more oil
has been poured on in the last few
days.
Mr. Richardson believes that II oil is
to be applied it should be done by some
system whereby it would be drilled into
the street.