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Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-06-16
ASKS COUNCIL TO
BUY HUGE PORTRAIT OF
GEORGE WASHINGTON

i If Los Angeles wants large !.
+ portrait of the Father of His i
I. Country bargain Is offered at Its !
I. disposal.
i Mrs. z. J. Waddingham of Long +
+ Beach yesterday laid before the i
= city council an offer to sell the =
i. portrait, painted by a sc.-.ic artist !
i who because of circumstances is Z.
I. anxious to dispose of the painting. !
+ The painting is Tiki feet and i
j. suitable for decorating public +
+ buildings on patriotic occasions. +
!. The city council turned the pro-, +
i posal over to the committee on r.
1. municipal art. y
i j. j. + + l. j. + + + i + + + + + + + +
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-06-16
ALBITRE AGAIN SENTENCED
TO DIE ON THE GALLONS

Accompanied by two stalwart deputy
sheriffs, Delphine Albitre appeared in
Judge Wilbur's court yesterday, and
for the second time listened while his
sentence of death was pronounced. He
will be hanged at San quentin within
ninety days after date.
Albitre was convicted of the murder
of his common law wife at Monrovia
two years ago. His case was appealed
to the supreme court and the decision
of the lower court was affirmed. He
was brought back from San Quentin
several days ago to again hear the SEN
tence of death pronounced.
When sentenced. he thanked the
court
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-06-16
COUNCIL ORDERS SALE OF
AVENUE 40 CABLE FRANCHISE

The city council yesterday approved
the notice of sale for the Avenue 43
cable franchise as reported by City
Attorney Leslie r. Hewitt.
The franchise to be sold calls for a
scent fare, cars to be operated hourly
at first and oftener when the council
orders it, planks laid over street cross
ings for wagons and pedestrians with
the cable sunk at those points and
approval of the board of public works
for plans and specifications.
The city will get per cent of the
gross revenue after five years, as the
Broughton act provides.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-06-16
LUMMIs ASKS COUNCIL TO
PRONOUNCE "LOS ANGELES

The city council yesterday. referred
to the legislative committee letter
from Public Librarian Charles F. Lum-
mis- asking that the correct pronoun-
citation of the City of the Angels be
formally established as being some
thing like this-Loce Angeles, with
a long o, hard g and the last syllable
rhyming with yes"
Librarian Lummis said that the laws
of Spanish make any other of the seven
common pronunciations wrong.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-06-16
Held for Old Crime

After having been at liberty for more
than two years since his alleged COM
mission of an offense, F. A. Street
charged with forging the name of j.
w. Ritzman to a check for s65 on the
First National bank of Pasadena IN
May, 1906. and who was recently ar
rested in San Francisco, was given his
examination before Justice
Pierce yesterday and held to answer in
the superior court in bonds of $500.
Street was unable to furnish bail and
was taken to jail.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-06-16
Asks DAMAGES from Company

Alleging that he sustained injuries
while he was passenger on Los An
geles-Pacific car that collided with an
other car of the same line near Rose
mary station April 2, 1908. g. b. Reed,
through his attorneys, filed suit in the
superior court yesterday against the
Los Angeles-Pacific company in which
he asks damages in the sum of $4,000
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-06-16
MISS CHASE'S CASE IS
DISMISSED BY THE COURT

On motion of Deputy District Attor-
ney Fleming the case against Miss
Bertha Chase, charged with attempting
to influence jurors in the McComas
murder trial, was dismissed by Justice
Selph yesterday morning.
Miss Chase is said to be an old friend
of the McComas family, and was &C
cused of having been too enthusiastic
In McComas behalf when talking to
Juror Charles F. Palmer while both
were passengers on car bound for
Santa Monica.
Contempt proceedings will be insti-
tuted against Miss Chase, according to
a statement made by Fleming.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-06-16
Bow Leaves Home

Otto Harrigan, 8 years of age, is
missing from his home and his father
has requested the police to watch for
him. The boy usually plays near Cen
trail avenue and Third street. When
last seen he wore blue waist and no
coat. He has black eyes. black hair
and is barefooted.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-06-16
Examination Postponed

The preliminary examination of G.
Irving La Mont, charged with issuing
a check for $50 on the American Ma
tional bank March without having
on deposit the funds necessary to cash
II Yesterday was continued by Justice
to June II in order that
the defendant might have ample time
to prepare himself for trial.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-06-16
VENICE WANTS SOME OF
FOURTH OF JULY GLORY

Venice officials have sent a mild
protest to Mayor A. C. Harper against
everybody going to San Pedro on Har-
Dor day.
The City of Canals is making inde-
pendent Fourth of July plans and the
Venetians suggest that If plans have
gone so far that the city is committed
to San Pedro July 4, July 25 be made
Los Angeles day at Venice. and large
delegation visit the city of gondolas
the latter date.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-06-16
Farnsworth Placed on Probation

In the superior court yesterday Elmer
r. Farnsworth was placed on probation
week Farnsworth pleaded guilty to
stealing several thousand dollars from
Bullock's department store, where he
was employed as bookkeeper last De-
cennber
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-06-16
For SELLING LIQUOR to Indians

Vicente Lieva, who is charged with
selling liquor on an Indian reservation,
pleaded not guilty in the federal court
yesterday and demanded a trial by
jury. His case was set for hearing
next Monday
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-06-16
Divorce Suits Filed

The following divorce suits were
filed in the superior court yesterday:
Harry Yost VS.. Mary Elizabeth Yost
and Mary ]. d. Ellison VS.. William
Andrew Ellison.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-06-16

while on Broadway stop at the Bartlett
Music company. why? Because they have
on exhibition the auto-piano to be given away
by The Herald. 1t win pay you.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-01-02
Iron Makinu In December

One year ago foundry iron NO. z
made in this district was worth $50 IN
Cincinnati; it now commands $3.50
there. The difference of $3.50 ton
resents the effects of the general
business inactivity and the stoppage
of a boom that was too strenuous to
last.
So long as No. 2 iron commands $14
in Birmingham there will be no reason
to complain in this district. The in
dications are that one consuming plant
after another will resume operations
in the new yeaesria the central west.
No one expects an immediate return
to full capacity and activity, but all do
expect a gradual, sound and satisfae-
tory demand for finished products.
Heavy buying of pig iron is not ex-
pected Immediately, but increasing in
quiries point to a reasonable extension
in the future of production.
The figures for December in this dis
trict are eagerly awaited. A possible
monthly production of 100000 tons
may have been decreased to 100000,
tons. In some districts the curtSrfl-
ment extends to so per cent of .Sapac-
ity, and like reduction in chis dis
trict would bring a month total down
to $4,000 tons. The moSern furnaces
in this district are, hoy ever, in blast
and DEFENDERS outtgfh will probably
be shown to,be Just about 100000 tons.
In 1904 there was a similar curtail-
ment, but by May 1 the ground lost
was fully regained.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-01-02
When the Mind BaIks,

when the mind balks," said Henry
Halstead yesterday, "a man gets back
nearer to stubborn nature than any other
time of his life. He learns that the
rest of him is just a little hilly coun-
try which makes small difference on the
whole horizon. In nearly every mans
life the mind baiks at just the wrong
time, the critical stages in his exis-
tence.
Just as soon as he realizes he is in
love with a girl the old mule rears back,
and he sits beside her like knot on
log. Time comes to pop the question,
and he don't do it until the third trial.
Then comes the critical moment when
he ought to drive in a spike for salary
raise, but the boss only hears hawking
and splitting. If he be a news reporter,
the days on which the paper is crowded
his mind wants to run a race with the
proofreader, but when the editor calls for
rush copy he scratches his head and
swears.
There are a few times when, under
momentous circumstances, mems minds
have followed the right impulse, and the
words which they uttered are the bright
places in history.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-01-02
CHlNA'S GIRL WIVES.

From the Chicago Daily News.
Girl children are often unwelcome in
China. A terrible witness to this is a
stone standing near pool outside the
city OF F'oochow. On it is the inscription,
Girls may not be drowned here" Poor
parents often sell or give away a daugh-
ter when but few weeks or months old,
to be the future wife of boy about her
own age. The child who becomes a
bride by rearing marriage is taken
home and brought up by the family of
her future husband. An English woman,
when visiting school, observed a bright
boy, about years of age, carrying a
baby girl. She asked if she We're his
sister, whereupon the boy looked shy and
did not answer. His brother volunteered
the information: "She is his wife,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-01-02
HE USED INSECT POWDER.

Herbert Corey, in the Cincinnati Times
Star.
At little dinner the other night the
real estate man told of a note he had
recently received from a protesting
tenant.
Il want them stares fixed" wrote the
complainant. My wife is lible to fall
on them steps and brake her dam
mex. And wen the men~is hear, they
otter fix the bat-tub We will want
to use it agen pretty sumo"
The doctor of the party capped that
with an experience of his own on
Rivington street. AN old slum dweller
had applied for life insurance" said
he, and came to me to be examined.
thumped him on the chest to try his
lungs. A cloud of white powder flew
out of the collar of his shirt. | was
curious, so l hit him again. Then
What's that? [ asked. 'Dthat pow
der? Yes said l. He slammed himself
on the chest. Another cloud arose.
You mean dthat POWDER Yes Why,
dots INSECT powder. Don't you use
any?"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-01-02

polled under the pressure of deficient
employment and lower wages. Under
such circumstances who can tell what
the northern vote will be, especially in
the chief industrial states? There is
no precedent, no guide whatever.
Heretofore the party in power has
been held accountable for whatever
has taken place. The republican party
has been in unlimited power since
March 4, 1897, and at the end of 10
years a panic of unusual severity &C.
cured. It cannot be laid at the door
of the democratic party, for that party
has controlled no branch of the fed
eral government.
If the republican party escapes re-
sponsibility next November it will get
off better than any party has in panic
periods in the history of this govern
ment 1t is wholly idle to judge the
vote of next November by the votes
in years that knew no panic.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-01-02
Electoral Prophecies

The New York Journal says "125,000
persons are out of employment in New
York today" In the face of fact
like this who can say what the vote
of New York, or of Illinois, Indiana or
Ohio will be next fall? The situation
is absolutely anomalous. Never before
has a money disturbance occurred in
the months preceding presidential
election. Election day is but 10 months
away, and no one believes the effects
of the furry will entirely pass away
in that time. No one expects full
tide of industrial activity throughout
the country by next fall when the cleo.
tion takes place. The best hope lies
In bumper crops next fall, and even
bumper crops would scarcely be in
time to help the republican party.
The vote. in other words, will be
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-01-02
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
opera-old and New.


Those who recall the old operas and
who listened to Puccinfs Madam But
terhy' at the Jefferson theatre. could not
have failed to remark certain points that
differentlate the old school from the
new" sad a music lover
In the first place the grand opera of
the past was written for five acts. In the
next place each finale brought on the
chorus. Then again, and it is more dis
tinctive still, the orchestra has an prom
inent a part in the work as the prin-
cipals on the stage. In the old operas
the orchestra simply played accompani-
ments without regard to the poetry of the
book or the action of the singers. The
new school cuts out recitative and aria,
the lines being sung in deelamatory
style.
There are many other points of differ
ence between the old and the new, but
those l have mentioned are the most no.
ticeable. The new school of opera in
many respects is far superior to the old.
The music is certainly of higher art. 1t
is at once intellectual and poetic In the
old French and Italian operas the music
was usually trivial. Verdi in his later
life almost out Wagnered Wagner, and it
is his later work that will live in the
history of music Puccini began in the
new school, and he is developing on true
lines. He is yet young, but is already
one of the greatest composers who ever
lived. In music drama no one living is
in his class"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-01-02
BlUlNG OF LUMBER.
rom American Industries.

FROM american industries
The forest service has undertaken ex-
periments at Bogalusa, La, with the
object of rendering lumber immune
from the attacks of bluing, thereby
stopping what at present is a serious
loss
Bluing is due to the growth of low
forms of fungi, all of which probably
belong to the genus Cera tostomella.
This plant is too low in the scale of
life to produce true seeds, but as "a
substitute it produces microscopic or
gansms called spores, which when ripe
are carried away by the wind in count
less numbers
The air of forests. and especially
around many lumber yards, is so in
tested with such spores that when tim
Der is placed in the yard to dry it is
infected with them. If the timber hap
pens to be moist and possesses neces-
sary food to support the life of the
plant the spores Immediately terminate
and send little threads, or hyphae, into
the tissues
Their action decomposes the sap and
causes the wood to become discolored
The deterioration in value of lumber on
account of this pest amounts to thous-
ands Of dollars each year.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-01-02
Where Did the Money Go?

Between August % and December
$7O0OO,O 900 of gold was imported and
the government increased its deposits
in national banks by $4,000, 000-a
total sum in cash of $780, 100000. Where
did it go?
The national bank returns covering
the period named show that the money
was not absorbed by the New York
city national banks, for they lost $43,-
$4,000 in cold cash between August
% and December 3. It did not go into
the national banks outside of New
York, for they gained in the period
named but $2,32O,O00 in cash.
Including the loss of cash by the
New York banks s190OO0,00O in cash
remains to be accounted for. Who got
it? This is a pretty difficult question
to answer, but there is feeling abroad
in the land that the blame must be
shared by the eastern trust companies
and other state banks ON the one hand
and by the individual hoarders on the
other The two classes, it is believed,
pocketed the vast sum, and they are
reluctantly disbursing it at present.
The question is academic and it will
perhaps never be answered. The ma
tional banks are coming along finely,
and the task they have had in hand
since October % has been difficult and
heavy, and all agree that they have
done exceedingly well. Comptroller of
the Currency Ridgely calls attention
to the fact that from October 20 to
December 80, 1907, there have been
but 16 suspensions or failures of ma
tional banks. OF these two have re-
sumed, and several more should do so
in the very near future. Contrast this,
he says, with the panic of 1873, when
100 national banks failed, and of these
"a were never reopened.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-01-02
Mobile In Class A

There is joy in Mobile. There are,
anticipations of fine sport in the glad
new year, for the money demanded in
the Cotton-States-L hold-up has
been paid, and naught remains but the
formal ratification by the Southern
league of the transfer of the Shreve-
port franchise to Mobile. This is ex-
pected to take place without further
hold-ups before the present month is
ended.
Mobile is elated, and already it is
scheming to gather a lot of pennant
winners. Its entry into fast company
is hailed by the Mobile papers as an
suspicious and happy event The peo-
pie of Mobile see in it "unalloyed
pleasure and pleasant anticipations 3"
The national sport has many friends
in the Gulf City, and those friends had
become tired of the quality furnished
by Glass c teams. There is a vast
gulf between Glass A and Class @, and
Mobile rejoices in the fact that it has
crossed that gulf and is safe on the
other side
Of the eight teams iln the Southern
league Alabama WHY hold three in the
center of the leagues territory. The
league wpula be compactly located
were it not for the Little Rock diver
sion, ana what cannot be cured in the
comiEg season must be endured, and
pe41aps another season will see the
teams comfortably and economically
placed.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-01-02
MEXICAN CARRIES HIS MONEY.

From the Mexican Herald.
Almost any Mexican in professional or
business life carries on his person any
where between $500 and $500. Even the
poor Indian in his blanket can more than
likely produce more than many foreign
ers.
The ordinary Mexican professional man
will be found to carry sums of money on
his person that would surprise the ord-
nary traveller and even cause him worry
were he forced to carry it with him,
yet the Mexican never even thinks of 1t.
1t was but a few days ago that an
instance of this kind was brought to at
tention. One Mexican of the middle class
asked another in a casual way if he could
change a thousand dollar bill. The other
pulled out a wallet from his inside pocket
and counted out nearly $1,000 Time after
time this has happened, and it seems no
uncommon thing for a Mexican of the
middle class to carry between 1000 and 20Go
pesos on his person
The check idea seems to have taken out
small hold as yet upon the citizens of
Mexico, especially when small amounts Of
less than $1,000 are concerned. They con-
slider it much easier to pay spot cash
than to give a check for amounts of
$50 and 500, and they claim with some
amount of reasonA that a business deal
can be put through with better advantage
when the cash is in sight
Even the Indian in the street carries
amounts of cash that would never be
supposed to be in his possession. They
carry their money in a leather belt, fast
ened around their bodies inside their
trousers. These belts are hollow and are
open at one end. Into the open end the
Indian slips his pesos or bills until he
has the whole full. The belt then is
either taken off and hidden away or the
bills are changed for larger denomina-
tions and still carried around the body
But the Indian Is a stickler for pesos
duros' and prefers them to any other
class of money except gold
To the Indian money is money, and a
bank book stands for nothing in his
way of reckoning. "A check he will not
accept under any circumstances, because
he does not understand it. coin or
paper currency is what he is after. and
that is what he keeps his hands on when
he gets it.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-01-02
Dandel ons are becoming plentiful.
S. CLAUS: A BIOGRAPHY.

From the New York Press.
Santa Claus, the most widely known and
popular individual on EARTH was born so
long ago that it would not be ladylike for
him to acknowledge it, so nobody knows
his exact age. Neither is it known just
where he was born, nor who his parents
were, but they must have been eminently
respectable people, for everybody nova
days claims kin with him. He is the
only untitled person whom nobody calls
Mister" and he is a bachelor of excel
lent repute. Although he gives away
more at Christmcs than Mr.. Carnegie and
Mr.. Rockefeller ever thought of giving,
he is not classed with the millionaires.
Still he shows a preference for that class
and he puts more,in their stockings than
he puts in the stockings of the poor.
Perhaps heyhas a taste for fine hosiery.
fact remains that the rich get more out
of him than the poor do. Maybe he
is not altogether to blame for that. Any
way, he doesn't ride around in an auto
mobile. This may be because ne wants
to save more to give away. At the same
time he doesn't ride in the street cars.
So there you are.
Santa Claus is the only truly religious
person outside of the Salvation Army and
the Public Charities association, for he
never asks anybody what church he be-
longs to before taking up his stocking to
fill it. Neither does he care a continental
about politics, and he never votes or con-
tributes to the campaign fund. He is es-
pecially fond of children, and the chill
dren are so dead stuck on him that they
want him to come around every day in
the year Their parents, however, don't
feel so much that way about it, and
Santa Claus kindly considers their feel
ings in the matter. He knows enough not
to be anxious to work good thing to a
FRAGILE.
Nobody knows where Santa Claus lives
in the summer, also the spring and fall
and most of the winter but wherever it is
it must be healthy place, because he
always shows up at Christmas looking SO
fat and jolly that really he ought to ad-
vertise the location and take in boarders
There is one thing certain, if he did there
wouldn't be any Children-T Taken
signs around the establishment
Santa Claus confines his attention al
most exclusively to mankind, the lower
animals except the reindeer, having no
pull with him whatever. This is a we'll
known fact in natural history, which may
be proved by pictures of Santa Claus
and his holiday turnout coming in over
the snowy roofs.
When Santa Claus dies there will be
the biggest funeral ever heard of, but
there is not much likelihood of that event
ever happening so long as there are any
children alive. When they are all gone
Santa Claus will go too, what's the use
of his monkeying with grown-ups?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-01-02
About Persons,

j. II. Crawford, the well known Walker
county representative in the legislature,
was registered at the New Florence last
night.
w. II. McKleroy of Admission was reg
istered at the Hillman last night.
DIR. Aston Fits, a we'll known physi-
clan of Tuscaloosa, was in the city yes.
terday.
Robert S. league of Montgomery son
of Mayor league of that city, and one
of the best known Masons of the state,
was at the Hillman yesterday.
G. F. Sedberry of Wetumpka is at the
New Morris.
E. Lee Higdon left yesterday for Leeds
where he will remain until Friday, re-
turning with his father, Col. e. l.. Hig-
don.
F. A. Gamble of Jasper is at the New
Morris.
w. p. McLead of Livingston is at the
Morris.
H. akin of Montgomery is at the New
Morris.