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Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-07
WORKMAN BURIED BY
AVALANCHE OF DIRT
IMPRISONED TWO HOURS BY
FALLING SOIL
colIapsing Timbers Fortunately Form
an Arch Over Him and He Is
Finally Dug Out Only
Slightly Injured

While engaged in digging in an ex-
cavation for sewer fifteen feet below
the surface at Spring street, near
Seventh Todor Broich, a laborer, was
buried beneath an avalanche of dirt
in the presence of crowd of people at
o'clock yesterday morning. For two
hours he remained half buried, but,
though greatly frightened, he was not
injured.
Broich is employed by A. F. Broom
stead. a contractor living at 5316 Mar
mion way. He was at work in the ex-
cavation when suddenly the earth caved
in above him and he was imprisoned IN
the loose soil. The accident occurred
just as a street car was passing, and
it is thought the jar shook the dirt
loose.
Patrolman Peter Mccain and Ralph
f. Ware, a travelling salesman, wit
messed the accident. Without hesita-
ton both rushed to the aid of the i'm
prisoned man, and, regardless of soil
ing their clothing, began removing the
barrier between Broich and freedom.
1t is supposed the timbering was frail,
as 1t collapsed and formed an arch over
Broich.
1t was more than two hours before
the man was released from his perilous
position. When he was taken out he
was hurried to the receiving hospital,
where the police surgeons found he had
sustained only minor bruises. After
being treated he went to his home at
6s6 CASTELAR, street.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-07
ISSUES BOOK CONTAINING
HISTORY OF INDIAN TIMES
Railroad Passenger Department PUB
fishes Work Which Tells of Scenes
from the Missouri River to
Pacific Coast

A history of the time when the rest
less Indian and the bison roamed the
country from Omaha, Neb, to San
Francisco, and an excellent description
of that portion of the United States,
is to be found in a book entitled THE
Overland Route to the Road of a Thou
sand Wonders" which has just been
issued by the Union Pacific and the
Southern Pacific passenger depart
Inents.
The book is work of art, with a
picturesque covering, the front being
a picture in relief from a painting of
pioneer days.
The size of the book is about six by
ten inches. and contains seventy two
pages of history and description, beau
fifuIly Illustrated with color plates, and
closing with poem by Joaquin Miller,
Californias poet
1t is a story of the route of the Union
Pacific and Southern Pacific, from
Omaha to San Francisco, a distance of
1900 miles. Much of the territory along
this route is still rugged and almost
untouched by civilization and from the
Ieafv coverts of the mountains the shy
deer looks out at the passing trains.
In many sections along this route ma
ture remains as it was before the iron
horse" ever rushed over the steel rails
and it is only by a trip through such
scenery one realizes, by contrast, the
nropress made in railroads and humid
reS other industries, within only a few
years
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-07
NATURALIZATION
PAPERS DENIED
PROPRIETOR OF RESORT AT
ARCADIA REJECTED
JUDGE JAMES CONSIDERS HIM
UNFIT FOR CITIZENSHIP
Investigation Alleged to Show ApPli-
cant Has Been Married Three
Times and Failed to Obtain
Necessary Divorce

After correspondence covering sew
eral weeks, S. L. Brown, head of the
detective bureau of the district attor-
ney's office, secured enough evidence
against George b. Purvis, proprietor OF
the White City resort, Arcadia, to
prevent his becoming a naturalized
citizen of the United States. Almost
every part of the country has been
communicated with and information
even has been sought through Scotland
Yard for facts regarding Purvis' for
mer history.
Purvis applied for citizenship Septem-
Der II, but his case was continued when
it was found his certificate of registra-
ton, made in April, gave his birth
place as Illinois, while he stated on
the stand that he was born in Eng
land. AS he left the court house that
day he was arrested on charge or
perjury This case was, however, dis
missed by Justice Stephens, who said
it would be necessary to send to Eng
land for witnesses.
Hearing of Purvis' application for
citizenship was resumed yesterday be-
fore Judge James. Many Of the ques-
tions propounded to him he refused to
answer on the ground that they would
tend to incriminate him. These ques-
tions specially relat- to his experience
in matrimony, and the officers claim
to have knowledge that Purvis has been
married three times and that no divorce
has been granted. Letters from Chicago
show that woman living in that city
claims to be his wife, that she married
him in British Columbia in 1886 and
that three children have been born to
them.
Purvis left Chicago in 1900. accom-
panied, it is said, by a woman whom
he married later in Philadelphia. This
woman is said to have lost her life in
a gas explosion. Purvis' third matri-
monial venture occurred, according to
the officers, in 1894, in Washington,
ID. c..
Purvis admitted that he had been
arrested in Portland Ore, but refused
to say anything about the charge
against him. Judge James said the
evidence showed Purvis to be a person
who has not conducted himself as a
man of good moral character and de-
MED the application for citizenship.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-07
WORKERS BADLY HURT
AT JEFFRIES' ARENA
CUP0LA C0LLAPSES, TWO MEN
FALL SIXTY FEET
Both Sustain Serious Injuries, While
Three Others Get of Compare
lively Unframed by AIieht-
ing on ScaffoId

One man injured internally, and
probably fatally, one with a broken
arm and leg, and three other men hurt
more or less seriously is the result of
the collapsing of the cupola of Jim
Jeffries' Vernon arena, on which the
five carpenters were at work at 10
o'clock yesterday morning.
Warren Craig of 1921 South Olive
street, who sustained the fractures,
and Curtis Carter of $40 South Grand
avenue, who is also badly injured, fell
a distance of sixty feet to the ground.
They were taken to the receiving hos
pital for treatment.
The other three men, I. B. Austin, ].
Berries and George Acker, fell on the
soaffolding and their injuries are not
so serious.
The roofing of the arena has been in
course of construction several days.
From some cause it became loose from
its bracings yesterday morning, and fell
to the scaffolding below.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-07
MISS LIMA, EASTLAKE
NEAR-H0G, HAS A MATE

@ MISS Lima, the Mexican half-hOg at {:
8 the Eastlake park zoo, is married. Her {.
o spouse came from HermOslllO, Sonora, 9
@ Mexico, this week and his name is g
@ LenO. =
o "He looks IT," says Keeper Rice. g
o LenO was sent by w. T. Lake of e
o HermosiIlO, who presented him to the g
O city. The following typewriter notice g
o was tackled to the box in which the g
9 animal was shipped: "My name Is 8.
8 Leno, and 1 am as gentle as the FAM g
o Gus 'Mary's little lamb and just as g
@ miscellaneous. 1 am to be married to g
O. Miss Jabali my arrival at Los An g
@ geles, consequently 1 will not require, g
O. much attention on the way. As to 9
. eatables, however, 1 like anything g
@ from peanut hulis to pound cake, SO g
q any leftOyers from your lunch viii be .
o highly appreciated, although as TO beer =
8 1 only drink that made by the Ger 2
o Veserla de Sonora" g
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-07
PROPOSED AMENDMENTS NOT
FAVORED BY COUNTY VOTERS

SAN BERNARDINO, Nov. SIN the
election the people of this county gave
most of the proposed amendments a
black eye. The proposition to change
the method of taxation was defeated
by 1888 to 1879 on nearly complete re-
turns. while that for taxing mortgages
was lost by 1900 to 2S75. Removal Of
the capital was voted down by 1902 TO
4O09 The seawall act was lost by
1899 to 1886, and the India basin by
566 to 3195. For extending the life of
corporations the vote was 2441 for and
2231 against.
The Republican electors received 46fl
Melvin for justice had plurality OF
745, Smith for congress one of 2076,
and Flavelle for assembly one of 1888.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-07
WANTS TO BE RELEASED
FROM SEWER ASSESSMENTS
A. N. Davidson Urges That owners Of
Tract Presented City with Ease
ment In Consideration of OBJ
tanning Free Connections

A N Davidson has filed with the
citv clerk his claim to be released from
payment of the sewer assessment on
Eleventh street, in accordance with his
verbal request previously made before
the city council. oooo
He asks that the city assume $4,000 of
the assessment on the sewer construc-
tion through his tract on Eleventh
street, citing the fact that the owners
Of the tract gave the city an easement
over 1O94.8 feet for the construction of
the sewer in September, 1904, in con-
sideration Of free connections.
Davidson's petition states that the
total assessment against the tract is
$1,000
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-07
Pln Lead lie Needed

The city water department ADVERTISED
yesterday for fifty tons of pig lead to
be used for caulking castiron pipe. De-
livery is stipulated within thirty days
of the award.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-07

The Southern Pacific sells tickets at half
rates to all points east as far Beaumont
and return. good only on Sunday. also on
Santa Ana branch Fare to Riverside and
RedIands and return, Through the Orange
Groves" S2.O5 Beaumont, $2.45. and others
Information at city ticket office. 900 South
Spring street. corner Sixth. or Arcade sta
ton.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-07

The Angelus grill has excellent SER
vice and better food. Fourth and Spring.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-07
ST. and ST.

The Saucepaf-I wonder what makes
the kettle so happy? 1t hasn't stopped
singing all day.
THE Coffee Pot-Why didn't you no.
tice It's new aid?-Puck.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-08-16

DR.. c. III. Benton of Chester, w. Va.
says that drunkenness is the result of
auto-intoxication-th mans wretch
edly cooked food, fermenting in his
stomach, brings on a very painful auto
intoxication wherein the sufferer turns
for relief to alcohol.
It was at the American Medical AS
ISOLATION s convention in Chicago that
Dr. Benton made this novel statement,
and at one of the association s dinners
he said afterwards:
''To escape the fortunes of autoin-
toxication men should marry women of
intelligence Then their food would
be properly looked after, and, with
healthy stomachs. they would shun
drunkenness as one shuns smallpox or
any other hateful affection.
''But men worship beauty. They
marry for beauty. When man mar
ries woman for her mind he is deem
ed eccentric, even foolish.
ga Chester lawyer married young
woman of exquisite mind-a thin, big
headed girl in speetacles. He would
never suffer from to-intoxication, no
doubt of that A friend from the East
was introduced to the lady one night,
and later on the bridegroom said to
him:
q George, what do you think of
her?'
"George pulled thoughtfully on his
cigar.
% Well, he said, 'to tell you the
truth, she ism It much to look at, is
she?'
"The husband IS face fell.
g All, but, he said, eagerly, what
a mind she has Externally, perhaps,
she isn't all that could be desired; but
within-ah, George, she has beauti-
full mind.
George smiled.
90 Then have her turned, he said. y
Mrs. Phelps Stokes, at a dinner in
New York, condemned the customary
treatment of domestic servants.
"1On account of this treatment, - she
said, ''intelligent young men and
women keep out of domestic service,
despite the good pay and the comfort.
"But who can blame them? In a
court of law, one day, man cook was
testifying, and, simply because he was
a cook, everyone there, from the Judge
down to the eryer, felt entitled to call
him by his first name. Had he been
cart driver, they would have called
him Mr.. Smith But no; he was IN
domestic service.
ga young governess, Vassar girl,
turned to me during the trial and said
that she, as a governess, met with just
such treatment on all sides.
She said that, on the lawn Of her
country house, her mistress once in
troduced her to a gentleman.
q Miss Jones, so the introduction
concluded, SIS our governess, you
know
''The governess looked at her mis-
tress expectantly, as if waiting for
something.
g And she said-fI beg your par
don--but what does the gentleman
doa'
q sWhat do Won meant said the
mistress haughtily.
=" You have told him my occupa-
tion, said the governess. Now L
want to know his. SO that the ae-
quaintance may start fair. .
Mother AIphonsa, the daughter of
Nathaniel Hawthorne. devotes her life
to those afflicted with cancer 1t IS to
her that Now York owes its admirable
Hawthorne Cancer home.
At recent meeting in aid of the
boroa AFo+bar AIuhousa smoke of chart
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-08-16

ty--a subject .whereupon, surely, no
one could speak with more authority.
She said that too many people went
in for cheap charity, that too many
lresembled certain railroad president
A manager came to this president and
began:
ssOld John Faithful's health has
broken down He had to leave last
week After his long service. | think,
sir, we ought to do something for him,
don t you9 He's very poor. 2
Glow long has John been with us2 -
asked the president.
"Forty-seven years, sir. -
"He always did his duty?'
HHe never missed a day, sir. -
"And now he s broken down COM
pletelv, eh?''
1'The chances are he II never leave
his bed, said the manager.
"The poor fellow said the prest-
dent. "We certainly must do some
thing for him.
He turned to his secretary.
"Perkins, he said, ''make out
John Faithful free pass for life. {"
Captain Pritchard of the record
breaking Mauritania told group of
Americans on a recent voyage that
a sailors life was hard one.
1tIt is not so hard as it used to be
before the coming of steam,' he said,
but it is still fearfuIly hard, for all
that In fact. I never heard of but
one man who had a decent excuse for
going to sea.
sand who was he, captain?'' said a
Chieagoan.
"Noah. . the captain answered
on shore he would have been drowned. -
"Mr Cleveland. - said New York
banker, "took much to heart the re-
Violations of our rich men S corruption.
He told me one day at luncheon that,
if these revelations continued. it would
be hard to name a multimillionaire
without naming criminal.
EFHe said that an English capitalist
came to New York last year with let.
tiers TO the greatest captains of indus.
try. He dined with one of these cap.
tains one night, and after dinner his
host s little son was presented to him
''It was a fine, well grown lad. The
Englishman patted him on the head,
and said, by way of joke:
Z" You are dear little fellow. !
hope you II grow up better man than
your father
'fThe Englishman laughed heartily
at his joke, but the millionaire father
looked grave. And after the boy was
gone, the father said, in a heartbroken
voice, with tears in his eyes:
- am indeed grieved that you,
sir. gentleman of education and re
fnement, should east reflections on my
character, and that. too. in the pres
enee of my son. 1t is true that the
missing stocks were charged to nv ac-
count. but | was honorably acquitted
by the courts.
Postmaster General Meyer. discussing
the new 2-cent letter rate to Great
Britain. said that it would enormously
increase the postal business.
'sThe mail bags will fill quickly
when this rate goes into effect, said
Mr.. Never. lie smiled. ''If such
rush of business had attended on the
the Nola Chucky postoffiee, the old
NOla Chueky postmaster ways would
have escaped notice.
sFSome years ago an old fellow was
appointed postmaster at the small vii
Iage of Nola Chuckv A number of
weeks passed. and the Nola Chuekians
and their friends began to complain
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-08-16
Told by Prominent People

Colonel Charles Coey, the president
of the American Federation of Aero
Clubs, said the other day in Chicago OF
an aeronautical pilot:
He is really too absentminded to
pilot balloon. He used, you know,
to be railroad conductor, but he had
to give UP the work; he was too
absentminded for it, too.
ION his train one day, as he passed
through the cars taking up the tickets,
joking passenger, instead of proffer-
ing mis- pasteboard. solemnly proffered
his forefnger.
Never noticing anything out of the
way, the conductor punched a little
chunk out of the side of the finger and
passed on
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-08-16
IL AUSTRALIAN CATTLE

ABOUT tine mallS. Ana no wonder. The
postmaster, it seemed had sent out no
| mail since his entrance into office.
"An inspector, investigating the
matter, pointed to the hundred or more
I dusty letters that the postmaster had
kept by him. and said sternly:
Why on earth, sir, didn Z you let
these gol'
" q was waitin', said the old man,
till the bag got full.
Samuel Gompers. at dinner in Chi
cago, talked about odd strikes.
SIN the town of Tin Can" said Mr..
Gompers, "a strike once occurred in
the melodrama, Pure as Snow
''The leading striker was one Gar,
rick Siddons. He tried vainly to get
his own and his comrades wages raised
| So week, and when his efforts failed,
he laid his plans.
''The play concerned murder. The
villain slew a man in the first act,
and in the third, in a court scene, he
was tried for his life.
"Garriek Siddons was the foreman
| of the jury in the court scene. In Tin
Can, at the most thrilling moment,
when the cross -exami nation of the viii
| lain was at its height, Garrick Siddons
rose impressively in the jury box and
said to the villain:
DeCoureey Custis enough of these.
| subterfuges. You, and you alone, are
the murderer. / ought to know, for
am the man you killed. But il is the
last time you will do it, sir, at the
wages / am paid at present
| "Our Bishop Burgess said a Gar.
den City man. sis one of the few
American elergymen who, being grad
yates of the famous University of OK
| ford. are entitled to wear the Oxford
! hood
"At certain service another bishop,
also an Oxford man, nodded towards
the officiating clergyman and whis-
pered excitedly to Bishop Burgess:
Why, look, he has got an Oxford
hood on.
- so he has, said Bishop Burgess.
" But he is not entitled to il. He
has no Oxford degree. exclaimed the
first bishop. why the man is wear
ing lie on his back.
- Hush said Bishop Burgess.
Don I call it lie. Call it a false
hood. -
Mrs ArehbOld Saunderson was de-
scrbing in New York her big game
hunts in South Africa.
"Don't Judge woman by her
| looks said she. 'tThe most ethereal
appearing girl may be able to bring
down coolly an elephant or q lion.
"To judge woman by her looks is to
court error. I know a man who. while
carving at a dinner, wished to say
something that would please the pale,
deep-eyed. spirituelle girl at his side.
g How do you like Maeterlinck3'
he at last inquired.
q well done, she answered, not
once lifting her ewes from the roast he
was working on
''Down in Bermuda said a Gin
cinnatiau, ~ heard Mark Twain make
a speech about snakes to a group OF
little girls.
"The speech was great The only
trouble was that the little girls eould
not appreciate if. II flew over their
heads.
''I remember the humorist 5 coneIu-
sion.
q" Never warm a serpent in youF
bosom, he wound up. 1T is far easier
to warm it by placing it under the
pillow of an intimate friend. "
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-08-16

An automobiles said of the Inflated
Cedrino, who lost his life in Baltimore:
1T is odd, but I travelled to Balti-
more with Cedrino. and on the way he
told me little story of an automobile
accident.
''It was a story about an italian.
He was doing the Riviera zen auto,
and on the Promenade des Anglais, in
Nice, as he turned very swiftly the
corner leading to the port. he came
face to face with another furiously az
vancing automobile, and his chauffeur
groaned:
Gracious. we are going to have
colIision!'
Really?' said the owner, as the
crash came How lucky that
changed my stiff derby hat this morn
ing for a soft Fedora"
Cecil Pape, Scotland Yard detect
i've, was buncoed in New York out OF
a large sum of money. Discussing in
dignantly the trick that had been
PLAYED on him, Mr.. Pape said the other
day:
I'D get back at those chaps if 1 had
the time. A Scotland Yard detective
is a dangerous individual to bunco. II
my engagements at home were not
pressing, I would stay here till
landed those audaciouS rascals in
prison.
You mustn't play tricks on Scotland
Yard, you know" said Pape, more
con,pIacentiy. Scotland Yard, if you
try it, gets back at you every time. 1t
is like the story of the watch.
There was London music hall
manager. Shoesmith by name, who
was very fond of his joke. especially
after dinner, when he had bottle OF
champagne inside him.
.wen. one night after dinner. Shoe
smith entered an oxford street jewel
er's. and said to the clerk:
...My man. what are those things
tbere-tbose round. fat things, white
on the one side, and yellow on the
other?'
".why. sir, they are watches; hunt
. .~.sss. watches. r. the clerk an
land what are they for? says SHOE
smith.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-08-16

General F. D. Grant, at a dinner
party in New York, said humorously
of the emancipation of woman:
Suppose, though, women should
have to go to war? 1 don't think they
would make very good soldiers. For
one thing, they would never grow old
enough to be placed on the retired
list"
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-08-16

Mother Alphonsa, the daughter of
Nathaniel Hawthorne. devotes her life
to those afflicted with cancer. It is to
her that New York owes its admirable
Hawthorne Cancer home.
AT a recent meeting in aid of the
home, Mother Alphonsa spoke OF chart
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-08-16

Congressman Longworth, at a din
ner during the Republican convention
in Chicago, talked about honest poll
itics.
Honest politics alone pay in the
end said he. Your dishonest poll
tician comes out like Lurgan of Gin
cinnati.
'Lurgan of Cincinnati was canvas
sing for votes. He dropped in at a
grocer's.
Good morning, he said. I may
count on your support, I hope?'
Why, no, Mr.. Lurgan. said the
grocer. I've promised my support to
your rival
''Lurgan laughed easily.
"'Ah. but in politics. said he, prom
Using and performing are two differ
ent matters
"'In that case,' said the grocer,
heartily, 7 shall be most happy to give
you my promise, Mr.. Lurgan.'''
The brilliant and learned Henry Van
Dyke of Princeton was discussing the
church cough.
I'm my boyhood there came to Ger
mantown," he said, "a gentle minister
who. the very first Sunday of his in
cumbency, stopped effectually his
coughing congregation.
1T was a congregation, too, singu
larry addicted to coughing. Rafting
volleys of coughs ran over it every
few minutes. The minister, indeed.
that first Sunday. could hardly make
himself heard. He had rather weak
voice.
s.well, after his sermon had pro-
eeeded for ten or twelve minutes, now
audible enough, now drowned under
great waves of coughs, he took a
resolution; and when the next out
break was at it's height, he ceased
preaching.
lat once the coughing ceased. There
was a profound silence. The minister
smiled.
my friends said he, 1T seems that
when I stop, you STOP
From that day in that church they
coughed no more.''