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Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-18
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
SCOLDS CITY COUNCIL
Objects to Action in Refusing to Call
Special Charter Election and
Wasting Committees
Valuable Time

The city council yesterday was
roundly scOlded by the chamber of
commerce for it's failure to pass the
ordinance calling the special election
for the board of freeholders to frame
a new charter. The language of the
board of directors of the chamber of
commerce, while dignified, leaves no
room for doubt of it's position in the
matter. The communication follows:
I'VE have noted with some surprise
the action of your hOnrable body re-
jecting the ordinance calling an cleo
ton for a board of freeholders to pre-
pare a new charter, thus postponing
action for two years.
"A committee appointed by this
chamber at your request has been at
work for several months on the pre-
liminary work, with the understanding
the election would be called.
without entering into the question
of whether or not a new charter is
necessary we suggest the decision
which you have just made, if arrived
at in the beginning, would have saved
our committee a large amount of time,
which they could not afford to lose"
This communication was ooolly re-
ceived by the council and ordered filed.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-18

dondo and N. w. Thompson will be the
speakers.
The big meeting for Saturday will be
in Pasadena Library park at p. M
The band concert will begin at $780,
and there will be red fire and fire.
works. A long list of speakers is an
nounced, which is being added to, but
all the talks will be brief. 1t will be
an open-air assembly, and a large
bunch of boosters from the Los Angeles
campaign committee will make the trip
i'm autos to catch some of the enthu-
siasm, 1t is expected that State Sec
rotary Eddy will be there.
From All Quarters
The south siders who favor bonds
and they are in the great majority
will meet Monday night at Vernon and
Moneta avenues to hear talks explana-
tory of the issue. Some few gathered
and resolved against bonds last week,
which made that part of town indig-
nant. Speakers will be Gesner Will
liams, Councilman r. w. Dromgold
and Ray Chesbro, secretary of the
highway commission.
The Pomona board of trade will hold
a special meeting Monday night to
talk over good roads. c. d. Daggett,
chairman, and C. w. Loder, engineer
of the highway commission, will make
addresses, and probably State Secre-
tary Eddy.
The veterans of the Soldiers home
will meet next week and hear General
Chaffee talk for good roads.
The Azusa Merchants association
sent in strong good roads resolutions
yesterday signed by J. r. Eldred,
Charles H. Knight, Charles H. Morris,
e. A. Mcdonald, Cornelius Smith, I.
w. Ketchum, R. M. Fellows and Ward
A. Stevens. it's board of directors. The
Azusa chamber of commerce followed
suit with even stronger ones, signed
by A. P. Griffith, Dana c. King and
Ward A. Stevens, a special committee
named for that purpose. These put
Azusa in line with Monrovia, which
brought its resolutions in Friday morn
ing
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-18
IMPROVEMENT OF STREET
DELAYED BY OVERSIGHT

Through an oversight on the part
of the engineering department the pro-
ceedings for the Improvement of TWen-
tv-eigfth street. between Figueroa and
Hoover streets, will be abandoned and
new proceedings instituted
Property owners on this street pre-
scented a petition to the board of pub
lie works recently asking for the grad
ing, crawling and oiling with cement
curbs and walks of this portion OF
Twenty eighth street under certain
specifications. In these specifications
the oil was of heavier specific gravity
than is usual and the gravel OF better
quality than the standard specifications.
When the engineer returned the or
dinance for the Improvement of the
street it was under the standard spe-
cifications instead Of those demanded
nv the property owners who will pay
for the work. AS a consequence the
property owners refused to accept the
street improvement ordered in the or
dinance and demanded entirely new
proceedings be instituted.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-18
ITALIAN STABBING
YELLED IN MYSTERY
Victim Claims AssaiIant Was an En-
tire Stranger to Him and Blow
Was Delivered Without
Warning

Guissipe Rossi, an italian bootblack,
is detained at the city Jail while the
police investigate a stabbing yesterday
in which Rossi received a knife wound
in the neck that narrowly missed the
jugular vein.
There are several peculiar features
in the case, the most peculiar being the
wounded mans version of the affair.
Through an interpreter Rossi told this
story:
II was standing on the west side of
Spring street, near Seventh, when a
man 1 didn't know came up to me and
asked me to take a ride into the cour-
try. l told him that L could not get
away from work. He then asked me to
take a drink in a saloon nearby We
went to the saloon and had the drink.
When we came out the fellow again
asked me to go to the country with
him and insisted.
II thought this was funny and 1
began to think he was crazy. My re-
fusal seemed to anger him. Suddenly,
without a word, he drew knife from
his pocket and struck at me. 1 lodged,
but not far enough to get away en-
tirely from the blow"
Rossi is unmarried He lives at 612
Alpine street. The police think he is
not telling all he knows.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-18
POLICE SIGNAL CONTRACT
is OFFERED CITY COUNCIL
Home Telephone Company Would In
stall 100 Foster Boxes for Three
Years at Rental of
$4,000

A communication from the Home Tel
ephone and Telegraph company to the
city council yesterday offered to the
city 100 Foster police lights and boxes
to be installed in the residence portions
of the city for three years at a rental
of $4,000 for the entire term.
1t would be stipulated in the con-
tract that those boxes be installed only
where there now are poles and cables
for the purpose The telephone COM
pany offers to care for the system for
the life of the contract at no addi-
tional cost.
AT the end Of the three years it is
stipulated the contract may be re-
newed for another three years at the
same price and additional boxes may
be placed at So per month, provided no
less than ten boxes are ordered to each
circuit. At the end of the first three
years, however, the city has the option
of purchasing the system for the cost
of construction. If neither the con-
tract is renewed nor the system pur-
chased the city is to pay one-half the
cost of construction.
This is the system Mayor Harper
recommended in recent message to
the council and a committee was APP
pointed by the council to make an in
vestigation. The communication was
referred to this committee.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-18
FINDS ORDINANCES
CONGLOMERATE MESS
PROSECUTIONS HELD UNDER
REPEALED LAWS
City Statutes Are to Be Revised by a
Committee from Hewltt's De-
partment and City
Clerk

Prosecution in the police court for
petty offenses under ordinances which
have been repealed is the weird state
of affairs City Attorney Leslie r. Hew-
lit has found in going over the city
statutes with view to their revision.
As d consequence of this and other
facts equally remarkable he has found
revision of the ordinances absolutely
necessary and to that end the council
yesterday ordered a special committee
appointed to revise the ordinances.
This committee will be composed of
Joseph Ford of the city prosecutor S
department, either Mr.. Hewitt or E. H.
Wilson. one of his deputies, versed in
the civil side of the law and a deputy
from the office of City Clerk Lelande,
to be named by Mr.. Lelande.
The ordinances now are in a con-
glOmerate mess that without complete
revision cannot be untangled. There
are ordinances which have been on the
books since the days when Los An
geles first was a city. Many of these
are obsolete, as no necessity for them
has existed for years. Some of them
are incapable of enforcement through
unfortunate wording that has crept in
while the ordinances were being hasti
ly drawn.
Obsolete ordinances will be stricken
from the books, ordinances incapable
of enforcement will be reworded and
new ordinances presented for passage
by the council.
In order that such an enormous grist
of new laws shall not be put on the
statute books, as has been the case in
the past. a resolution was passed by
the council yesterday forbidding the
city attorney to draw up an ordinance
unless written memoranda be present.
ed by some councilman or committee.
Verbal instructions have had d dis
astrous effect in the past. A few
weeks ago an ordinance was passed
by the council, drawn up on verbal
instruction, and the councilmen voting
in favor of the measure were under
the impression they were voting for
something Numerically opposed to
what the ordinance contained.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-18
CONTRACTOR MAKES ERROR;
WOULD WITHDRAW HIS BID
Tells Board of Public Works Figures
Were Not Based on Blasting
Solid Rock in
Streets

G. Fl. Oswald, a contractor whose
bid for the improvement of two streets
was the lowest received by the board
of public works. appeared before that
body yesterday and asked permission
to withdraw his bid, as he had made a
serious error in his figures.
The improvements proposed are cut
ting down the grades of Vendome
street from First to Hoover, and of
Hoover street from First to Vendome.
Mr.. Oswald told the board he had put
in his figures without knowledge of the
character of the soil he would have to
cut through and later learned it was
largely rock that would have to be
blasted.
There is 80 cents a linear foot differ
ence between the bid submitted by Mr..
Oswald and his next lowest COMPETE
tor, and if new bids are called for Mr..
Oswald says he will pay the cost of
advertising and take the job at a lower
figure than the next lowest bid already
submitted.
No action was taken on the case.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-18
POLICE CLOSE CRIBS
ON ALAMEDA STREET
ALLEGED FULLER HOUSES ON
CONDEMNED LIST
All the Others Proceeded Against Are
Owned by Company In Which
Commissioners Brother
Is Director

Coincident with the publishing of
charles H. Fuller's"Cochrane affidavit"
the police received orders to close six
disorderly houses in the North Ala
media street district. Accordingly yes
terday morning the proprietresses of
these resorts were told to "dispossess."
The two houses which Fuller, as
president of the Pioneer Truck COM
pany, was accused of owning, We're
among those slated to be closed.
Mystery shrouds the identity of w.
Cochrane, the nonresident of Los An
geles, whose ownership of the Alameda
street properties came to light in the
affidavit sworn to before A. D. Laugh
lin, lawyer in the Bradbury building.
Further than that Cochrane is nom
resident the information of either Full
Ter or Laughlin does not go.
Commissioner Fuller says the man
lives in Fresno. Mr.. Laughlin is of
the opinion that his residence is in
Riverside. Cochrane himself departed
into the vague unknown Thursday
night, Immediately after he appeared
to set matters straight about the own
ership of the properties accredited to
the Pioneer Truck company.
The other four disreputable houses
closed yesterday are said to be the
property of the Enterprise Construc-
ton company, of which Fuller's BROTH
err, o. B. Fuller, is a director. Two of
these houses are on Alameda street
and -wo are on Jackson street. These
were vacated, it is said, because the
construction company intends to de-
molish the buildings to make way for
other structures.
Commissioner Fuller says he holds
no stock in the Enterprise Construc-
ton company. He explains his con-
nection with w. Cochrane by stating
that his company, the Pioneer Truck
company, transferred the North Ala
media street property to Cochrane June
/, before he became police commission
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-18
The Knockout Blow.

The blow which knocked out Corbets
was a revelation to the prize fighters.
From the earliest days of the ring the
Knockout blow was aimed for the jaw,
the temple or the jugular vein. Stomach
punches were thrown in TO worry and
weary the fighter, but if scientific man
had told one OF, the old fighters that the
most vulnerable spot was the region of
the stomach, he'd have laughed at him
for an ignoramus. DR.. Pierce is bringing
hoEe to the public parallel fact; that
thd sNQmacA is the most vulnerable organ
out Of Ehe prize ring as well as in it.. We
protect bur heals, Threats, feet and lungs,
but thekNJn1RNl\we are utterly indiffer-
ent 10, until diseASA finds the solar plexus
and knocks US out Make your stomach
sound and strong by de use Of Doctor
Pierce's Golden MedicaI. Discovery, and
Yon protect yourself IN Your most Yulner-
abe spot. sGolden Medical Discovery
cures weak stomach" indigestion, or
dyspepsia, torpid liver, bad, thin and inn
pure blood and other diseases of the or
gans of digestion and nutrition.
The "Golden Medical Discovery" has
specific curative effect upon all mucous
surfaces and hence cures catarrh, no
matter where located or what stage it
may have reached. In Nasal Catarrh 1t
is well to cleanse the passages with DR..
Sage's Catarrh Remedy fluid while using
the rDiscovery as a constitutional REM
edy. Why the "Golden Medical Discov-
cry" cures catarrhal diseases, as Of the
stomach, bowels, bladder and other pelvic
organs will be plain to you If you will
read booklet of extracts from the writ
Ings OF eminent medical authorities, en-
dorsing its ingredients and explaining
their curative properties. 1t is mailed
free on request. Address DR.. R.V. Pierce,
Buffalo, N. Y. This booklet gives all the
ingredients entering into DIR. Pierce's
medicines from which it will be seen that
they contain not drop of alcohol, pure,
triple-refned glycerine being used instead.
Or. Pierce's great thousand-page illus
trated Common Sense Medical Adviser
will be sent free, paper-bound, for II one
cent stamps, or cloth bound for 81 stampS
Address DR.. Pierce as above.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-18
COMPLAIN AGAINST
ENGINEERS METHODS
TELLS PROPERTY OWNERS TO
HIRE SURVEYORS
Refuses to Do Work for Which Taxes
Are Paid and Board of Public
Works Hears Accu-
Stations

Property owners are protesting TO the
board of public works against some or
the high-handed methods adopted by
City Engineer Homer Hamlin. Inc
chief complaint is his refusal to 40
work that properly belongs to his de-
partment and for which property own
ers pay taxes. This work is the deter
mination of street lines when new
streets are to be laid out or eXlstlns
streets widened
specific instance that has been
brought to the attention of the board
of public works is that OF MRS. nan
nah K. Clark, 1888 Willard avenue. Mrs
Clark owns some property on Severn
teenth street, between Pacific and MIL
lard avenues, where it is proposed TO
widen the street. The widening of this
street cuts off the front of Mrs. clark
building. and in order to move the
structure back of the proposed new
street lines she asked the city engineer
TO determine these lines.
Get a private surveyor to determine
the street is all the satisfaction she
received from Engineer Hamlin, she
told the board.
The engineers office is possessed OF
field notes that would make it very
easy for that department to determine
these street lines. The department
must eventually fix the lines in any
case and the lines produced by prl-
vate surveyor have no legal STANDING
Not only could the engineer readny TX
the lines but it has always been the
duty of the department to do so ana
is one of the things for which property
owners pay taxes in the city.
Refuses Charity Work
This is said to be but one instance
of many where Engineer Hamlin has
advised property owners wishing 70
know street lines to employ private
surveyor for the purpose
Another instance for which Engineer
Hanlin has been severely criticized is
his refusal to place an inspector over
the work of sewer connections or the
Barlow sanitarium. The Barlow SAM
tarium is a mi-charitable institution
and the trustees recently took steps 10
connect with the sewer. In order 10
reach the main laterals it was necessary
10 run the pipes over property belong
ing to the Bessino heirs. These helfs
first demanded $500 for the right of way
over the property. BY dint OF hard
work. lasing several months, A. A. Hub
bard of the board Of public works got
the consent of the heirs to a free right
of way over this property. The trus-
tees of the sanitarium entered into q
private contract with Ramish & Marsh
to construct the sewer for the actual
cost of the pipe and labor. The law
REQUIRES city inspector be placed over
the work and Engineer Hamlin re-
fused to detail an inspector until
Ramish &. Marsh had deposited enough
money to pay the cost of inspection.
This Mr.. Ramish refused to do, as his
firm was taking the contract with no
profit whatever.
When complaint was made to the
board of public works d. K. Edwards,
in charge of the street and sewer de-
partments. detailed one of his own in
spectors to take care of the work at no
cost to the contractors.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-18

City Attorney Hewitt is confident the
real estate will be returned to the city,
but in order to secure its return his
Office has had to file suits to quiet title
1t is considered ridiculous the city
should be compelled to quiet title to
property which belongs to it by right
of law. A proper transcript. 1t is be-
lieved will do away with the necessity
of filing quit claim suits hereafter.
Through ignorance on the part of city
officials as to the parcels of land owned
by the city much land has passed into
private ownership through the squat
ters" law. Individuals have "squatted"
on city property for the required term
of years. have not been dispossessed
and have acquired title to the property
with no greater effort than living on it,
rent free.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-18
WEATHER BUREAU MEANS
TO MAKE ITS OWN MAPS
Special Printer Is to Be Employed
When New Quarters Are Occupied
and Distribution viii Be
Larger

After the 1st of August the maps is
sued by the Los Angeles weather bu-
reau will be printed on their own press
instead of being reproduced by the te-
dious milleograph process, as in the
past.
William ]. Carson of Davenport,
Iowa, has been assigned to the station
as printer and will begin his duties
about August 1, when the weather bu-
reau will move into it's new quarters in
the Central building. About 375 copies
of the map are issued daily at present,
but a larger number will be sent out
as soon as the printing press is in
stalled.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-18

err. The transaction was managed for
him. he says, by his brotheR
The proprietresses of the disorderly
houses say they have been expecting
for several days ORDERS to get out.
They always considered Cochrane,
whom they seemed to know, an agent
of the Pioneer Truck company.
The police state that the order to
move the occupants of the six disor-
derby houses came from the owners of
the properties.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-18
MUST ANSWER TO CHARGE OF
BREAKING CHILD LABOR LAW

E. A. Fischer, proprietor of Fischer's
theater on West First street, who is
up in court on a charge of violating the
child labor law, appeared before Justice
Frederickson yesterday afternoon and
his trial was set for July 2S
Fischer is accused of employing as
a dancer Catherine Mowers, said to be
under Is years old. At first he pleaded
guilty to the charge, but later changed
his mind and decided to fight the case.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-18
CITY LOSES REAL ESTATE
BY OFFICIAL IGNORANCE
Municipal Property Sold for Taxes
and Squatters Obtain Title
Through Lack of Tram
script

A transcript of all city property is to
be made by a searcher working under
instructions from the office of the city
attorney.
There is no such transcript in exist
ence, and as a matter of fact no city
official knows just what real property
the city owns.
AS a consequence of this state of
affairs, four pieces of city property
were recently sold to pay delinquent
taxes. No tax of any kind is assess
able against municipal property, and
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-18
McVIcKAR AND PINcHOT TO
ADDRESS THE CITY CLUB

Members of the City club are prom
ised a treat at their weekly meeting
tomorrow when John McVickar of Des
Moines, for many years secretary Of the
League of American Municipalities,
and Clifford Pinchot, chief forester of
the United States, will address the
club at the Westminster Francis j.
Heney, the graft prosecutor of San
Francisco, will be guest at the
luncheon
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-18
Mexican in jail

Ell PASO, Texas, July 17.-Benito
Soils was arrested here last night,
charged with conspiring to start a rev.
clution against Mexico. He is the sew
enth man arrested here since the out
break at Casa Grande and Las Vacas.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-18
Merry del Val on Vacation

ROME, July 1.-THE health of Car
dinal Merry del Val, the papal secre-
tary of state, has become somewhat
impaired by hard work and he will leave
for Vicarello tonight to take the cure.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1908-03-20

Saturday evening, March q, 1908,
our school exhibit will be held. AT
7:30 p. m. in the high school room a
program, consisting of numbers from
each of the different departments,
will be given. Immediately after the
program, the doors of the different
rooms will be opened. We have pro-
vided lights for all of the rooms and
each teacher will have her own work
on exhibit in her own room. We be-
lieve this arrangement will avoid
and give the patrons OPP.
portunity to thoroughly inspect all of
the work ON exhibit. Patrons, this
exhibit is for you. The teachers have
spent no small amount of labor in
preparing it for you. We request that
all of the patrons, especially, come out
and hear the program and thoroughly
inspect the work of every department
The public is invited.
A. B. Rich, Prin.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1908-03-20
EPIGRAMS.

From Sunday Sermon byRev. II. Preston
Providence has given to the young
men of our day a large inheritance.
Every thing belongs to them, All
paths to power converge at their feet.
All treasure-stores are disclosed by
their touch. All doorways of oppor-
tunity fly open at their approach.
The compulsion of sovereignty
presses upon the young manhood of
America. "Be king, is the perpetual
admonition. The duty of leadership
and service can not be thrust aside.
Obey the dictates of your individu-
atty. What you can do you ought to
do, and what you ought to do you
must do by the use of your personal
endowments. When you have dis
covered your characteristic gifts. work
them to their fullest capacity.
Let the rising generation assume
the obligation of their position, and
smite the tyrant evils that Cypress US.
They can purchase deliverance, if
they will.
Zeal without knowledge is destruc-
tive. 1t is like the lightning let loose,
dealing death and disaster. 1t needs
to be curbed and directed by wisdom,
that like the electric current, it may
be a blessing to mankind,
On the other hand, knowledge with
out zeal is nerveless and ineffective.
Knowing and doing are the twin fac
tors in the subjugation of evil and the
enforcement of good.
The Dieter Bros. entertained
large audiences for two nights last
week with a first class vaudeville pro-
gram which was enthusiastically APP
plauded. Saturday night they gave
a dance and furnished music for a
large number of the young people who
delighted in the light fantastic
Sisseton Standard.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1908-03-20
IF o WISH TO BUY.

Sell, or exchange farm lands, city
property, stocks of merchandise, high
class horses or anything of value
Call on or write FL. V. Foxton, The
Land Man, De Smet, S d.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1908-03-20
SEED GRAIN

The Farmers Elevator in De Smet
can furnish pure Blue Stem seed
wheat; clean seed barley, very heavy;
seed fax and oats. This grain will
be cleaned and ready for sowing. This
is choice grain saved for seed pur.
passes.
Those desiring seed should place
their orders at once
The prices will be governed by the
market. AT present the wheat will be
sold at $l.10; barley, 80 cents; flax,
SIPS; oats, so cents. Prices subject
to change without notice. Terms,
cash. FARMERS Co. OPERATIVE Assn.