Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-29
TfLEGRAPHIC BRIEFS

HONOR LEE IN CHINA--In 1898 sllp
Of ivy from Gen. Lees grave was planted
in the grounds Of the Annoy club, and yes
terday afternoon bronze tablet was set
in an adjacent rock by American residents
OF Annoy The tablet is inscribed; This
ivy was taken from the grave of Gen. Rob
ert E. Lee and planted by Vice Consul Car
BURBANK INvITED--Luther Burbank of
California has been invited to attend the
national flower show which will be held IN
the Coliseum of Chicago November 6-1A.
and to make exhibition OF his creations
in horticulture. Tho Invitation was extend
ed by the flower show committee and was
the result of a discussion of the directors
Of the horticultural society of Chicago
MALARIA DECREASES--Dr w. c.
Georgas. chief sanitary officer on the 18th
mus, reports that eases of malaria among
the employees on tho canal is showing a
material decrease. During September of
last year there were admitted to the hos
pitfalls 1911 cases. while this year in Sep
TENDER there were 1916 cases Within this
past two years he states there has been no
case OF yellow fever or bubonic plague in
the canal zone.
POLICE SEEK LOOT-rhe police are
quietly searching for some trace OF the val
liable loot taken from the cathedral of st,
Euenne, Limoges France. last May. The
French authorities have secret Information
which leads them to believe the stolen ar
ttcles We're sent to the United states and
the articles stolen has been sent to the
New York police. The list. 1t is said. has
also been sent to the police of other large
cities in the country.
POLICE STOP ADMINISTRATIONS Gold
man. was led from the Propylaeum in In
dianapolis she was about to address a
largo audience that had assembled last
night at the fashionable clubhouse to hear
her. Twenty policemen were on hand when
she arrived. and as she stepped into the
hall she was told she would not be per-
mitted to speak in that city. Ben l.. Reit-
man. who was with her attempted to
speak on a corner near the Propylaeum, but
the police forced him to desist under threat
OF locking him up.
RAILROAD EARNINGs--Th The report of
the St Louis q San Francisco railroad for
the year ending June 80, 1908, has been
given out at the general office OF the COM
pany in st. Louis. The total net income.
after including the receipts from hire of
equipment, etc, and deducting taxes, was
s11.313.S49, a decrease If 21.3 per cent. or
SS,060,2S9. The surplus, after the payment
of interest, dividends. etc. was s259.S24, a
decrease OF $S.899,517 or 93.4 per cent.
The compulsory reduction of passenger
rates In many states Is blamed for de-
crease in passenger revenues OF $2S9,2S9.
OLD JUNK FOR MEDALS--A ton of cop
per pipe collected from old French excava-
tors and locomotives some bronze bearings
taken from cars, locomotives and excavators
and 200 pounds of tin found in one of the
Panama have been collected and will be
sent to Philadelphia mint to be used In
casting bronze medals which are to be pre-
sented by the president to employees OF the
isthmian canal commission who have served
two years or the isthmus. 1t Is
expected the medals will be ready for dis
tribution early in 1909.
WANT DUTY ON PEARLS--The customs
a high rate of duty of an Importation from
Morris Guggenheim of ffty-nine matched
and pierced pearls. The pearls were en-
tered at a low rate of duty as pearl beads,
while the government holds they shrould
be listed as a necklace and therefore dutia-
BILE at the rate of 60 per cent ad valorem
The case Is similar to that against the late
William b. Leeds. which is famous in Gus
toms annals, and in which the federal court
upheld the governments claim. This case
is now before the federal court OF claims.
VISIT THE PRESIDENT--Pablo ocampo
de Leon, one of the two resident commits
sioners of the Philippines In the United
States. called at the White House yesterday
to talk with the president on political eco
nomic matters in connection with the ISL
ands He thinks congress should grant an
extension OF political rights to the Philip
pines and make provision In the tarin Tor
the free entry into the United States OF
sugar and tobacco from the Philippines. he
advocated a reduction in the Philippine
tariff SO as to permit the entry into the
Islands free of duty American Agricultural
machinery.
GRADUATE IN TROUBLE. b. Hum
phrey, a graduate of Cornell university,
class of 1904, has been arrested in Chicago
OH charges of 1eecing former classmates by
means of worthless checks. umphrey is 80
years old and a son of the late l.. A. Hum
phrey. a wealthy shoe merchant OF Elmira'
n. Y. While in college he was editor-in-
chief of the Comedian and the class book,
and was a member OF the Delta Epsilon
fraternity The police say he has swindled
old college chums In Chicago and other
western cities out of more than $4,000 since
August. He was arrested on complaint or
Horace p Sailor. vice president of the
North sharp-Saior company, Monadnock
building.
TRY TO BURN VEHICLE--An attempt
was made last night to burn taxicab In
Now York, a man who was riding IN the
cab placing under the seat long white
stick of some white substance which set
fire to the cushions and filled the Van with
smoke. The passengers escaped, but the
driver, Albert Morrison, with the help OF
the fire department., extingufshed the nre
before much damage had been done to the
cab. Morrison then took the stick from
which the FIRE came to the police staton,
and while explaining the fire, dropped IL 70
the floor severe explosion followed, the
station was filled with white smoke ana
fire burst out instantly. The fire was ex-
tingushed after small damage had peen
done and Morrison and several others hao
been painfully burned.
LIGHTSHIP RELEGATED-on December
I the old Sandy Hook lightship, which for
half century has marked the western end
of the transatlantic travel, will go out OF
existence and the name Will never appear
on the logs of the ships crossing the ocean.
In place of the old ship will be an entirely
new one and on its side will be painted the
words Ambrose Channel" The old sea-
marx will disappear and the name that has
for half a century been one of hts most
prominent in the annals of navigation, Will
disappear forever. The original lightship
was anchored In its place more than fifty
wears ago, With the opening of the new
Ambrose channel ships will not approach
within three miles of Sandy Hook and FOR
that reason an unsentmental lighthouse
hoard has decided to substitute Its name
for the old one and honored one of Sandy
Hook.