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Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-27

regularly for drunkenness, who always
has a pocket full of copper and galvan-
lied wire, but what he does with it re-
mains a mystery, as he never works
and is always intoxicated.
1.-THE contents of a mans pockets
proclaim his character exactly, espe-
cial to desk sergeant or an officer who
has searched many prisoners. What
ever previous opinion the desk SER
geant may have formed of a prisoner
will be confirmed or swept aside unal-
terably by an examination of his pock-
cts.
THE man who carries a considerable
variety of junk in his pockets is gen.
orally shiftless and no account.
How Crooks Are Caught
Sometimes, too, we discover that a
man merely run in for vagrancy or
drunkenness is u real crook, though we
had not suspected it until his pockets
were examined. Often it is an ugly
knife, or a key-nipper, a skeleton key,
a JIMMY, or something of that sort,
which tells the tale.
mot long ago one of the officers
brought in a n an on a charge of dis
turbing the peace. We found that his
pockets were full of cinders. although
he maintained stoutly that he lived in
los Angeles and had not been out of
town for year. Those cinders told us
that he had been beating his way,
either by riding on the hurricane deck
the bumpers OF the tender. SUISSE
quently we discovered that he was
tramp wanted for crime in the north
ern part of the state.
"It Is surprising, too, how prevalent
Is the for dness for poetry, even though
oh Af modern
Jingle. Nine men out of ten, however
low or degraded, carry from one to
ten or fifteen newspaper poems in their
pockets. Most of this poetry, among
the tenderloin class. relates either to
home or religion. Articles dealing with
social problems also are accumulated.
Saves All His Letters
"The average drunkard writes but
few letters, yet saves all that he re-
ceives The pockets of an habitual sot
will be found in most instances to con-
tain from ten to twenty letters dated
from five to ten years back.
"Laboring men, of course, carry the
usual number of references AMI rec
concentrations, but 1t Is noteworthy
that the average skilled laborer, when
arrested for drunkenness or INSIDE
.lneanor, as is generally the case, carries
Junk Professional men accumulate a
more expensive variety of curios, oddi-
ties, etc, but all alike evince the mag
Die tendencies of the average law
breaker.
1.-THE older criminals, yeggmen and the
like, are seldom caught with many per-
sonal effects unless taken unawares.
Whatever he carries is essential to his
business or needed in his toilet"
After a Saturday night, in which
from thirty to fifty DRINKS and others
have been searched, the desk sergeants
Junk pile has developed into a noun
tain of anything but pleasant odors.
From one to five pounds of tobacco,
dirt, bits of rags, paper, etc., are swept
from in front of the window every sun
day morning, and the office of the DESK
sergeant is Uttered with heaps of shoe
strings, pebbles, pins, spools, newspa-
rer clippings, nails, sticks, etc, so ut
terly worthless as not to be saved
even though the owners of this trash
frequently insist that they want 1t
back"
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-27
LOVEL0RN MAIDEN
SOUGHT BY POLICE
Pretty East Twentieth Street Girl is
Thought to Have Run Away with
Employe of Real Estate
Office

Daisy C. Miller, 16 years of age, has
disappeared from her home on East
Twentieth street, and relatives believe
the girl has run away to be married.
For some time past Miss Miller has
been going with young man employed
in real estate office. A week ago
the girls uncle, with whom she lives
cautioned her not to be out late nights
with the young man and the following
day she disappeared. Upon investiga-
ton it was found she had taken suit
case and several dresses with her.
Efforts have been made to find the
young man she was going with, but so
far they have been unsuccessful.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-27
FOUR THOUSAND TEXAN CLUB
TO HOLD RECEPTION TONIGHT

The Four Thousand Texan club will
be entertained with a leap year recep-
ton at the hall, 1914 South Hill street,
at o'clock tonight.
The program for the evening, ar
ranged by DR.. J. A. Metcalfe, presi-
dent; Colonel ]. Lee Burton, vice pres
ident, and William J. Schaefie, secre-
tary and treasurer, is specially In hon
or the women from the Lone Star
state. and will be composed of literary,
musical receiving new members and
dancing. Among the prominent speak
ers for the evening is Rev. Herbert
e. Bowers, rector OF the Episcopal
church of Highland Park, formerly of
Galveston.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-27
TELLS HOW JUDGE
BROKE BOYS NECK
MEXICAN GIRL GIVES TRAGIC
STORY OF MURDER
Fifteen.Year-OId Miss in Los Angeles
Describes How chihuahua Magis-
trate Killed Her Youthful
Brother

Fifteen-year-old Eustolia Paris sat
in the United States marshars room in
the federal court building Saturday
and looked as demure as an old maid
four times he age.
The little face had reason to be
clouded. for there is deep sadness
that sweeps over 1t now and then,
caused by an almost incredible murder.
She has lost a brother under the most
tragic of circumstances.
About four years ago her 12-year-
old brother, Jesus Paris, with party
of twelve others, was in the city Of
Chihuahua, Mexico. They had in some
way gained the hostility of a judge
there.
This official, she says, very POM
pously made life a burden to herself
and brothers, and hence one of Eu-
lolia's brothers would often call after
the judge on the street, saying that
he was robbing the people and keep
ing the money paid in fines for his
own pleasure.
The boy one evening shouted after
this pompous official. saying that he
was a blight on the town and that he
was bullying the people.
Eustolia's eyes blazed as she con-
tinued with her narrative.
HE was only a boyle years old,
she exclaimed, but this man-this
judge-turned around toward my broth
err, caught him in the mouth with
one hand, while with the other he
grasped the back of his head. Then
he wrenched the boy back like this
Qndicating), and turning his hands as
you would when you wiring chickens
neck, he killed my brother"
The girls face grew sad at the MEM
ory of the alleged murder of her lit
tie brother She plucked nervously at
the bundle she was carrying.
There are four other brothers living
here with the father, who is barber
at 712 Ducommun street.
Those who heard the girls narrative
were much affected.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-27

Considerable excitement was caused
among the mining fraternity Of Love-
lock the early part of this week by the
report that a sensational strike had
been made three miles northwest OF the
old Trinity mills In the Trinity range,
and about sixteen miles northeast of
Lovelock. Some samples that were
brought in from the find PANIED to the
extent OF $500 to the ton.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-27

Mr.. E. e. Chamberlain of Clinton.
Me saws of Bucklen's Arnica Salve:
at does the business; l have used it for
niles and It cured them. Used it for
chaDped hands and 1t cured them. APP
nlied it to an old sore and It healed 1t
without leaving a scar behind" 25c at
Deans drug store.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-27
viii Give Dance

VIII Give Dance
The annual dance of the clerks of
the stores of II. Jevne the grocer, VIII
lie held tonight at Mammoth hail.
barrow Improved
The condition of Clarence H. Oar
row, the prominent Chicago attorney
who was operated on Tuesday at the
California hospital, is favorable IL
will be some time before Mr.. barrow
will be out. Everything points to his
ultimate recovery
Dies at Home of Son
Mrs. N. r. Hawk, wife of the late w.
r Hawk. died at the home of her SON
c. w. Hawk, 1878 West Twenty-third
street Yesterday. The funeral will be
held Tuesday at 10 a. M, from the resi-
dence. Rev. DR.. McClish to officiate.
The interment will be in Evergreen
cemetery.
Funeral to Be Held Today
The funeral of James Maynard VIII
be held this morning at 10 O'CLOCK al
st. Matthias church, the interment 10
be IN Rosedale cemetery. Mr.. Mayndru
died at the home of his daughter. MRS.
Edward T. Tompkinson, 2l52 west
Twenty first street. He is survived oy
his wife and daughter and one son.
James Maynard, jr., of San Francisco
William H. Avery Dies
William H. Avery, aged 65 years,
who came to Los Angeles four, years
ago from New Orleans for his healtn'
died yesterday at 622 West F1fteenth
street. The funeral will be held tues
day at D. m. from the chapel OF orr q
Edwards. The interment will be IN
Rosedale cemetery.
Meeting Postponed
Of innlpmpnGV OF the
weather yesterday Afternoon the Murphy
gospel temperance meeting at the
Chutes park was postponed until next
Sunday afternoon.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-27

The householder who has learned by
experience declares that ready made
BAHAMAS last her menfolk so short q
time that it is simple waste of money
to buy them. Both material and work.
manship arc so superior in the gar
ments made at home by careful wifely
or motherly hands that many men now
avoid the shop made article altogether.
The pajamas sketched are of modish
and comfortable shaping and are
adapted to development in any of the
suitable materials The Jacket may be
made either with or without the turn
down collar, as preferred. To make
the medium size (38) requires 3-S
yards of material 80 inches wide.
COILS sizes, 80 to 46 inches, breast
measure. The price of this pattern is
10 cents.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-27
THE CITY

Strangers a. Invited to visit the exhibits OF
,,a,iforni,. pro11cts at the Chamber of Com
merce building OF Broadway, between First
Snd secono streets. where free information
w.H be given on all subjects pertaining to this
section.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-27
CITY BRIEFS

Peniel hall, 227 South Main street. Cos
pei meetings noon and p. M. daily.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-27

TIL Herald will pay so in cash to anyone
furnishing uvioencs that will lead to the arrest
and convictior Of any person caught stealing
comics OF Tie Herald from the premises of our
patrons THE HERALD.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-27

n YOU want to go east. c. Haydock.
Agent Illinois Central R. R.. lis W. 9Th.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-27

HoLLENBEcK LODGE. NO. sis. +.
q A. NJ, will confer the second de.
" ~ gree Tuesday, January za. ? p. m.
w J. WILL DICK. sseE
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1908-05-29
TINE FOR ACTION.

The arraignment which the Brattle-
boro Phoenix gives some of its local users
of automobiles is pretty severe, but no
doubt merited, as even the reckless driv-
ers referred to would admit were they to
stop to consider. The arraignment re-
fers to only the few, as it does in every
community, but it is for the many to tu-
tor the few lest the automobile fall into
general disrepute. Furthermore, the
wonder arises, in view of the statement
by the contemporary that "in our bust
est streets the speed limit is constantly
violated, in not few cases outrageously
So" that the local officers of the law have
not ere this taken steps to remove the
evil by publicly accusing the reckless and
thus calling attention to the requirement
of decency imposed on the drivers of the
machines by law which permits them the
use of the roads. Brattleboro, too, is the
home of the attorney general, who is the
leading prosecutor of the laws of the state.
Why is not some action taken to bring
the violators of the law to task for their
disregard of the rights of their fellows?
1t will be too late after serious accident
has occurred. We realize that there may
perhaps be reluctance to bring before a
magistrate those who are among the
prominent citizens of a community, but
society's demands as expressed by law
are of first consequence. Those who
won't heed the really liberal allowance
of the present automobile statute ought
to be made to do so.-Barre Times.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1908-05-29
Killed in Auto era sh.

Providence, R. l., May 17.-Three men
were dangerously hurt and five Others
cut and bruised when big touring car
in which they were riding crashed into
a smaller car at Hills Grove, ten miles
from this city, early this morning.
Stephen Dodge, chauffeur of the big
car, died at the Rhode Island Hospital
three hours after the accident. Edward
Conroy, of Pawtucket Heights, and
George Whitaker, of Roxbury, Mass.
are at the hospital, suffering from severe
Commissions. The injuries of the Others
are not serious. Washington Post.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1908-05-29

be bought-however corrupt their repre-
sentatives at the State legslature-and
that if the populace were allowed to
name the Senators by direct vote the
Senate would become thoroughly i'm
maculate body of sages and patriots. The
scheme has not been incorporated in the
Constitution, but through the subterfuge
of party nomination and party prim-
airy, the Constitution has been practically
nullified in the States where candidates
for Senator are named by blanket pri-
mary.
Well. the thing in practical operation
is somewhat disappointing. All the law
yers since Sir Edward Coke could not
devise a scheme by which Senatorship
could be bought with more facility than
by giving the selection to the people
rather than leaving it with the legisla-
ture. Take a great State, and what
chance would poor man have against IA
rich man with money in both pockets?
Headquarters must be established.
OAOi no iliuob NC
must be printed. Advertising must be
resorted to. The telegraph and the tele-
phone must be utilized. Large expendi.
lures must be made for postage. Rail-
road fares, hotel bills, salaries and ex-
penses of henchmen must be provided
for.
All these things have happened in State
primaries for United States Senator,
whereas under the Constitution as it is
and as it should be enforced in the spirit
as well as the letter-the poor man can
go to the State capital and show himself
to the representatives of the people, thus
forcing the rich man, if the thing be-
comes a matter of purchase. to buy it
outright instead of by indirection.
All free government was made to pro-
tect minorities. This principle is ex-
quisitely exemplified in the creation of
the United States Senate by the fathers
and the mode and manner of the election
of Senators prescribed in the Constitu-
ton.
Every time a political faker lays his
hands on the Constitution he defiles it,
Washington Post.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1908-05-29
THE AUTOMOBILE.
AUTOMOBILE HOGS.

While the automobile accident at Mer-
iden, Conn, in which two Brattleboro
men were so seriously hurt, appears to
have been in no wise due to reckless or
fast driving, this unfortunate occurrence
has caused good many Brattleboro peo-
pie to think seriously of what may hap
pen here at home before the automobile
season is over if the pace which has been
set by some of our automobiles in open
ing the season is continued. Reckless
driving was never more apparent than 1t
has been this spring, and it has never
caused more general and unfavorable
comment.
Before the accident at Meriden hap
penened prediction was freely made that
we shall inevitably witness some terrible
accident on our own streets or highways.
In our busiest streets the speed linn
it is constantly violated, in not few
cases outrageously. so Not only is the
speed recklessly high, but corners are
turned with no appreciate slackening or
with any regard as to how teams or foot
passengers may be forced into the gutter
On highways outside the village the con-
ditions are equally bad. We have al
ready had brought to us several reports
from persons riding in carriages of have
ing been driven suddenly into close quar-
tiers and making very narrow escapes
from being come upon from behind by
automobiles driven at reckless rate of
speed.
There are a few automobile owners
who make themselves especially conspic-
uous by their insolent bearing and their
show of brute force as they ride about
the village streets or go upon the high
ways. The names of these persons are
suggested whenever reckless driving is
mentioned. 1t is to be hoped that, ad-
monished by the accident at Meriden
and by the unmistakable sentiment of
the community, they will mend their
ways, both in speed and department, be-
fore they have serious loss of life or limb
to answer for.-Brattleboro Phoenix.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1908-05-29
DEGRADATION OF THE
HOUSE
A Home and Republican View of
Sneaker Csnnon's Attitude.

a Home and Republican view OF
Speaker Csnnon's Attitude.
To what depths of degradation the
House of Representatives in the Con-
gress of the United States has sunk John
Sharp Williams, effectively showed his
so, 100000 countrymen yesterday, even
though he chose to do so with an ill-timed
and uniting buffoonery.
For Mr. Williams forced upon the Re-
public the almost incredible spectacle
of 164 duly elected representatives of the
people pleading in vain for the mere
opportunity to present to their fellow
Legislators in any shape or form a legisla-
tive proposal which they unitedly
favored.
One hundred and sixtyfour servants
of the people demanded right which
the constitution give them and which
their oaths of office obliged them to use.
One insolently self-made master of the
people ignored that demand and rendered
it futile. Could travesty of democratic
government go further?
The very fact that so vital a protest as
that made by the minority was presented
with the clownish trappings of a mock
revival meeting gives startling evidence
of the vicious thoroughness with which
the regime of Joseph g. Cannon, Serene
E. Payne andlJohn Dalzell has stamped
out in the lower chamber of Congress
the sense of political morality, the habit
of common decency and the ideals or
representative government. 1t is today
astoundingly clear that the things which
America holds most high have become
in thesHouse of Representatives merely
the objects af cynical and contemptuous
pity.
With solemn humbug, with party
buncomhe, with ancient political cant
Speaker! Cannon has completed the
wretched work of turning the free legis-
lative assembly of democracy into
shameless autocracy. He himself, singly
and unaided, now dares to speak, think
and act, for 1856 men to make their laws
y,
fundamental principle of the nation, he
disregards with cool inlpudence that
would not be tolerated in the Russian
Dumas.
In so far as anarchy includes the
destruction of law and the overturning of
ordered government, is this not anarchy /?
1t cannot long endure. That much is
certain. For like the bomb throwing
anarchy the Cannon school inevitably
defeats its own ends. No other Congress
will see the principles of American
government SO brutally destroyed as they
have been at the hands of the present
speaker of the House of Representatives
Chicago Evening Post.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1908-05-29
NEW ENGLAND BRIEFS

jeremiah Mccarthy, charged with
manslaughter in connection with the
death Of Arthur Norton at the Cashier
farm, Portland Me, was sentenced to
five years in state prison.
Charles ]. Barrett, aged 81. director
of the national organization of the
United Hatters of North America, died
at Danbury, Conn. He was stricken
with apoplexy while at work in his
garden.
a military mass in memory of the
dead of the war with Spain. the Philip
pine instruction and the China relief
expedition, was held in tre presence of
5000 people on the parade ground at
the naval training station at New
port, R l.
The freight depot of the Boston and
Albany railroad at Athol, Mass, was
destroyed by fire, believed to have
started from spontaneous combustion.
The loss is $4,000.
The body of Harry Segar, aged "a
was found in a canal at Barre, Mass. 1t
is believed he accidentally fell into the
canal.
Rev. Charles E. Burke, 60, for twenty
five years rector OF st. Francis Roman
Catholic parish, North Adams, Mass,
died from a cancer which affected the
face and throat
Deputy Sheriff Edgar S. Thayer of
Providence county. who for many years
proclaimed the Inauguration of govern
ors from the balcony of the state house,
died at Providence. He was 10 years
Of age.
James Kettrick, aged I, tried to jump
from a wharf to the deck of a sailboat
at Pawtucket, r. l., and missed his
footing and was drowned.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1908-05-29

All of this shows that Mr.. Foster is a
faithful and very capable congressman.
He is, too, a candidate for reelection to
this Office, and for,no other Office at this
time and does not expect to be for any
other in the immediate future.
We believe he will be triumphantly
reelected by the voters of the LIST dis
trict; and this in spite Of the fact that
two very worthy and capable gentlemen
have Unexpectedly appeared as candi-
dates for the same Office. These last
will have to wait for our voters are not
ready yet to spare a congressman whom
they have always found honest, efficient,
capable and faithful.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1908-05-29
AUTOMOBILIsTs WARNED.

Brattleboro, May 1S.-The Brattleboro
village bailiffs have decided to make war
on reckless automobile drivers within the
village limits, although they do not an
nounce just what their plan of cam align
will be. The speed limit is being violat-
ed here every day and several drivers are
conspicuous for their infractionG of the
law in that respect. Two years Ago sew
eral automobiles W re arrested for over
speeding, but the bailiffs let them off with
no severer penalty than to put them on
probation 30 days, and while some have
been more careful since then others have
gone back to their old tricks Messenger.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1908-05-29
BORDEN REDUCES WAGES
Cut Equivalent to That of Other Fall
River EMPLOYERS

NJ. c. d. Borden announces q reduc-
zion in wages of 1874 percent, equal to
the reduction which went into effect
Monday in the other mills at Fall River,
Mass. under the agreement in his Fall
River Iron Works company mills.
1t has been Borden's announced
policy for some years now to pay In his
mills the market rate Of wages, no more
and no less. He has not taken the
initiative in making changes, but fol-
lowed promptly the schedule fixed by
the other manufacturers.
Notices announcing the reduction
were posted with notices announcing
that the mills would resume full time.
Five thousand operatives are affected.
The American Printing company,
owned by Borden, resumed full time
running. No change in wages was an
nounced there.
Both the Iron Works mills and the
American Printing company have been
Shut down for four weeks on alternate
weeks this spring, the curtailment by
the Iron Works company mills amount
ing to 100000 pieces.
Inc new wage agreement between
the cotton manufacturers and the Tex
tile Council which will be in force until
next November became effective Mon.
Gay. Under the agreement the %
ooo opratives accept a wage reduction
OF 1874 percent. Fall River mills have
been running on short time for several
months, but it is expected that the pro-
duction will be increased considerably
next month.
The Fall River cut swells the number
OF cotton operatives in New England
whose wages have been reduced this
spring to about 10000.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1908-05-29
Head Stuck Fast In Mud

John Chandler, 45 years old. rented a
farm at Cumberland, r. l. On Tuesday
one OF the men who boarded with him
went to the well to draw a pail of water.
AS he let down the pail he saw Chand-
ler's feet above the water and after
calling for help the body of the man
was hauled to the surface. Coroner
Marshall decided that while reaching
down for pail of water Chandler lost
his balance and plunged down head
FIRST, driving his head deep into the
mud at the bottom of the well