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Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-08
SCHOOL ENROLMENT SHOWS
MOST ENCOURAGING GROWTH
Special to The Herald.

Special to The Herald.
LONG BEACH, Sept. TAT noon to-
day Prof. J. D. Graham, superintend-
ent of schools, said that there had been
4O5 enrollments in the high school to-
day as against S46 at corresponding
time last year. 1t is expected that
nearly fifty others will enroll during
the week.
Prof, Graham expressed his sincere
qualification that an addition to the
high school building has been agreed
upon and the contract let. The super
intendent held meeting st the ATTAIN
tic avenue school today with the prin-
cipals and teachers of the grammar
grades. These schools will open to-
morrow,
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-08
AND PHILATHEA CLASS PICNIC
special to The Herald.

Special to The Herald
PLAYA DEL REY. Sept 1.-The
Baraca and Philathea classes of the
University M. h. Sunday school arrived
here today, twenty-five strong. The
party, chaperoned by Mr.. and Mrs. J.
w Wilmington, Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
Heron and Miss Edith Hough, is stop
ping at the Del Rey hotel and expects
to remain Ihree days.
This is the first of a series Of annual
o. tings which the two classes have in
prospect About ten more members
are expected to arrive tonight to join
the party and finish the outing.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-08
county EXHIBITS Are All Winners

SANTA BARBARA, Sept 7.-Word
has been received in this city from
of the Santa Barbara display at the
state fair, that first premiums have
been awarded to Santa Barbara for
olive oil and walnuts, and that this
county was awarded second premiums
for olives and petroleum. Only four ex-
hibits were sent by this county to the
winner. ---------------
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-08
Savings Bank
BUYING PRICE OF LOCAL
RANCH EGGS is ADVAN CED
SCARCITY OF CABBAGE CAUSES
BIG RISE
Firmness in Berries and Sweet Pota-
toes Results in General Advance.
Fresh Water Black Bass
y Arrive

The buying price Of local ranch eggs was
advanced to 28hc a dozen on the produce
exchange yesterday. There was no change
in the selling price-31 q s3c. Before the
buying price was changed there was DID
of 29c which was Nc above quotation, but
no offers were made.
The only sale during the call of the pro-
duce- exchange was so sacks of pink beans.
Receipts of all commodities for a Monday
were below normal
Cabbage advanced to 90c a sack. which
was the second rise in a week The market
was cleaned up and there was but little
cabbage to be had at any price
Sweet potatoes showed hrmness and ad-
vanced to $1.50@1.75.
Berries were in limited receipt and a gen
eral advance resulted. Raspberrtes sold as
high an lie Top on blackberries and straw
berries was To-
The first belleheur apples from loeal
point reached market yesterday. All KINDS
of fish were plentiful the feature OF the
Ash market being a shipment of fresh water
black bass. Catfish. barracuda and hahou'
were the principal fish on hand.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-08
WILL PROVIDE CAMP GROUND
FOR TROOPS ON THE MARCH
Special to The Herald.

Special to The Herald
SANTA BARBARA, Sept. 7.-Mayor
Elmer J. Boeseke of this city has not-
fed Captain Day of the Fifth cavalry
regiment, stationed at Fort Huachuca,
in Arizona, that this city will proVlde
camp grounds and water for the regi-
ment during the two days the regi-
ment will stay in this city While en-
route from Los Angeles to the camp
at Atascadero, near Paso Roples' III
San Luis Obispo county.
The regiment will leave Los Angeles
September IA, after making the trip
from Fort Huachuca by rail-: from
Los Angeles 1t will travel up the coast
at the rate of fifty miles a day, taking
five days to reach this city. AT the
Angel City and at this point the regl-
ment will rest two days, these oelng
the only places at which the stop WIN
be of so long a duration. Contracts
have been placed with local dealers 10
supply 1000 pounds of hay, $500 pounds
of rrain and four cords of wood, to be
consumed during the stay In this city.
After the Liquor Traffic
The Anti-saloon league of this coun-
ty has inaugurated a vigorous cam
paign against the issuance of saloon
licenses anywhere in this county ex-
cent in the municipalities of Santa Bar
bara. Iompic and Santa Maria, and Is
circIIIating petitions, which are being
generallv signed, to be presented to the
board of supervisors at the regular
meetine of the board next Tuesday,
asking that the question of license or
no license be submitted to the people
at the election in November.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-08
Something Wronc

Patience--Did you see hee solitaire diamond
engagement ring?
Patrice-No
why. she had 1t on"
Il didn't II, Just the same
Whats the matter with your Are you
stone hlindT'-Yonkera statesman
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-08

oo pet DBL 1zo IDS. net..s..... 40
Wheat. No. 600 lbs) $.sB; wheat. (1Oo-ib.
sacks), No 1, ST. 90; corn C1O0 lbs) 81; cracked
corn 600 lbs) s2.o5; feed meal. 600 lbs) 81 10:
rolled barley COO lbs.) $3.50: oil cake meal (ioo
lesl so; shorts dOO lbs.) $3.50; bran. heavy.
Goo ibs.) 81 49,
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-08
Woman's Chorus Club Meets

DpsVIaI 70 The HeraId
PASADENA, Sept. 7.--Beginning it's
seventh season the Woman's Choral
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-08
FLOUR AND FEED PRICES
AT LOS ANGELES MILLS

The following quotations prevail at the Capt.
tol mills:
MEALS, PER 100 LBS, IN SACKS:
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-08

W. J. WAsHBURN, President; WILLIS h
BOOTH. Vice President; p. B. JOHNSON,
Cashier; r. T. JONES, Asst. Cashier.
N. p. COR. FIRST AND SPRING SITS.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-08

Rolled wheat in bbls. net w.t. 125 lbs, Dbl. "a
Rolled wheat in sacks. net W.T. so lb. SIX. l..
Buckwheat flour (bulk seamless SIX. 100 1bs) a.
Buckwheat flour pure (bulk seamless
sacks) 100 lbs Observation-Disclosures. a.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-06-05
Ruler In SPLENDID Health.

Prince Luitpold, regent of Bavaria.
celebrated the eighty-seventh ami
versary of his birth recently amid a
brilliant gathering of the Bavarian no.
bility. The effects of his many years
are almost unnoticeable. The veneer
able regent looks much younger than
he is. He is in splendid physical con-
dition. His limbs have retained their
elasticity, his muscles are still hard,
and nearly every day he defies wind
and weather and undergoes the hard
ships of the chase. wearing always the
old-fashioned greenish-gray shooting
costume peculiar to Bavaria. The Ba-
varian people seem to have forgotten
King Otto, the mad ruler of their
country, who has been interned in a
suburb of Munich since 1886. The
Bavarian parliament would have
made Luitpold king in succession to
Otto had he not refused to accept the
post.
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and stark, the little tense fingers still
clutching at the shirt that he had
barred for the blow.
The boy was:
Knobel, Walter, IL years old, son
of Mrs. Mary Knobel, 755 Racine ave.
nue..
The man:
Amann, Henry Rudolph. 40 years
old, 1912 Otto street.
Here are the letters that the man
and the boy wrote during the period
of SO hours that they wandered to-
gether through the north woods. pluck
ing flowers, eating roots and nuts, and
talking of their resolve to quit the
world together:
From Walter Knobel to his mother
and to Edward Martin:
Chicago, May Is, '0S.-Good-bye, Mr..
Martin. l want to be with my father
Tell mother. Farewell. mot signed
but in boys handwriting)
From Amann to Edward Martin:
Mr.. Fielder has no faith in me any
more. | am going to end it all. My
brothers in Germany will pay all my
debts.
From Amann to Hermann Fielder:
MY brothers in Germany will pay all
4 owe you. Goodbye. I am going to
end all.-H. r. Amann.
In Amann's pocket, in two hand
writings:
Please bury us in the same grave.
Everything was against us. do not
want to live without my father. | go
with my own free will. (SignedD
Walter.
On matchbox in woods:
It is his mothers fault. She is a
-calumniator.
In the morning about two o'clock
Amann was found wandering as if de-
mented near the officers quarters at
Fort Sheridan. He was challenged by
Private Sage of Company D. who was
on picket duty.
The guard advanced, to find blood
flowing from the mans breast He
hurried him into the hospital and
called for assistance. The man was
unable TO speak because of weakness
from loss of blood, and motioned for
paper. This is what he wrote:
Please get my boy 200 yards north
east of the post at Sheridan.
He whispered incoherently about
killing the boy. but no one believed
the story until morning. Private Sage
determined to investigate and went to
the spot designated.
Here he found the body Of 12-year
old boy under a tree. lying in a pool Of
blood. He Immediately notified the
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-06-05
Given Double Meaning.

Chancellor Kirkland of Vanderbilt
university. like others of similar Of
fee, is known to his students by the
briefer name of Chance"
Besides being the university's chief
executive, he is also its head profess
sor of Latin. and-the boys say
prize long-talker at chapel exercises.
One day. after a protracted discourse.
while conducting a class in Horace. he
called on a certain student to read.
who did so in utter innocence and alb
solute accuracy as follows: 1T is
hard for us to endure the blows of
chance"
The class burst out In a roar. of
laughter. and as the Chance" joined
in. the dumfounded student perceived
the modern significance Of ancient
words.
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Went Millin@ly
TO Death with
M@m HE Lowed
Boy Gbeerfully Yields Life Rat6-
er TbaD Be Separated from
GorDpaDioD to WborD He
Was Attached
Was Attaebg

officers of the post, and the man, who
was then unidentified, was double
strapped to his bed for fear he would
escape.
The story of the murder and at
tempted suicide in all its details was
told by Amann first to Lieut.. Frank
Griffis, hospital surgeon, and later to
the coroners jury He begged for a
knife that he might fulfill the suicide
compact.
81 was up against it and sick and
discouraged and determined to end it
all. The boy would not leave me and
wanted to go with me. We wandered
two days in the woods and along the
beach and finally agreed to die to-
gether," he said.
I'VE wandered and talked about the
people we saw Men and women
seemed happy and walked to and fro
and we watched them. L had talked
about leaving the world and told the
boy to go back to town, where he
would find friends.
"He said, 4 will go with you and
where you CO. and tried to slip away
from him as he played in the sand He
saw me and followed me.
eve watched the people going by in
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-06-05
TO PREPARE The PLATFORM
CONFERENCE ON SUBJECT TO BEL
HELD IN WASHINGTON.
President Roosevelt, Secretary Taft
and Other Leading RepubIi
cans to Participate.

Washington, May 29.-At least ten
tative draft of the Republican national
platform will be prepared In Washing
ton. Already arrangements are max
ing for conferences on the subject.
The likelihood is that the conferences
will be held here next week, and that
by the time the delegates to the con-
vention turn their faces toward Chi
cago, the declaration of principles will
have been whipped into shape and
tucked away in the inside pocket of a
prospective member of the committee
on resolutions.
Participating in the platform con-
ferences will be President Roosevelt,
Secretary Taft, leading Republicans in
both branches of congress and others
who probably will take a conspicuous
part in the convention and subsequent
campaign.
Arthur |. Vorys, the Ohio manager
Of Secretary Taft's preliminary cam
paign, was in Washington Wednesday
comforting with Mr.. Taft 1t can be
said that he did not come to the CAPT
toll primarily to discuss the platform
with the secretary, but on business Of
different character. 1t is expected
that Wade H. Ellis, attorney general
Of Ohio, who is one of the delegates
.at-large from that state, will have a
part in the preparation of the platform.
He drew the tariff revision rlank of
the platform adopted by the Republi-
cans of Ohio at their state convention
and it is anticipated that a somewhat
similar declaration respecting the
tariff will be adopted at Chicago, FAR
ticularly if the forces of Secretary
Taft should control the convention.
Beyond informal discussion of the
subjects to be treated in the platform,
nothing has yet been done in definite
way in it's preparation.
Secretary Taft had conference late
Wednesday afternoon with Frank H
Hitchcock, eastern and southern man
ager of his campaign, and Mr.. Vorys,
concerning the conference, nothing
was disclosed beyond the general fact
that it related to the final details OF
the preliminary campaign.
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times Walter would burst Inuo tears
and run away.
Saturday night Edward Martin, a
barber living at 915 School street, re-
ceived an envelope that contained
three letters.
Tho envelope showed that it had
been posted at Lake Bluff May 16 at
eight a. m. 1t contained three letters,
one from the boy and one from
Amann, and third for Hermann Fled
Ter, saying farewell and telling of the
purpose to commit suicide.
Amann said in his confession he also
mailed letters to his relatives in Ger
many. After the letters to Martin were
mailed the pair kept close to the woods
and remained in hiding for fear a
be arrested.
Boys Mother Fears BIackmaI.
Mrs. Knobel thought when she first
heard of. the letters that it was only
another attempt on the part of Amann
to get money from her. She did not
suspect that he had actually killed her
son.
Amann is said to have relatives in
Germany who are of the Weather
class, and frequently got money from
them during the earlier years of his
career in Chicago, but for the past
six or seven months has lived in abb
ject poverty.
In the hospital Amann said he had
been injured in being put off street
car by conductor four years ago, and
brought suit against the Consolidated
Street Railway company for damages,
in which he was given a judgment
amounting to $500. The case was
appealed and pending the appeal he
has had practically no means of live
lihood except charity. His attorneys In
the case were Gormann and Ruben.
stein
Federal Authorities May Act.
After the autopsy and when the in
quest was resumed States Attorney
Hanna announced that it was prob
able that the case was one for the
federal authorities rather than the
state because it had happened on
military reservation. The inquest was
adjourned for two hours.
Investigation by the coroner and
post officers determined that it was
outside of the post that the body was
found and the coroner's inquest was
continued.
Coroner Taylor took the body of the
boy to Waukegan, where the inquest
will be continued. Amann was also
taken to Waukegan in an automobile
to await the verdict of the coroner's
jury and subsequent action on the part
of the grand jury.
States Attorney Hanna said he was
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-06-05
Gould Carmen Out,

st. Louis, May 29.-Five hundred
carmen employed ON the lines of the
Missouri Pacific & Iron Mountain sys-
TEN in Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska,
Colorado, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Louisi-
ana and Texas, are on strike as re-
suit of the failure of Wednesdays
conference between General Manager
Sullivan of the Missouri Pacific, and
committee representing members of
the Brotherhood of Railway Carmen.
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turned away from there to go into the
woods. | was tired of life and discour.
aged and could have gone into one of
the lighthouses and killed myself.
Pluck Flowers in Woods.
in the woods and away from the
people we gathered flowers and | told
him the Latin names for the flowers.
Il found a specimen of Trillium
Grandiflorum, and explained how rare
1t is, and compared it with the other
and more common trillium, which
grows in abundance.
I'VE had had nothing to eat since
Tuesday and pulled roots and shrubs
to stay our hunger. 1t came night and
we slept in the woods until it began
to rain. Then we went down to the
beach and curled up under a wide
cornice of one of the houses.
I'VE lay on my coat for pillow, but
the boy woke up and was cold. We
walked until morning and went to
Lake Bluff, where we wrote and mailed
three letters telling our friends we
would end all.
Friday we walked to Lake Forest,
and then back to the beach by Fort
Sheridan. We saw people and they
were well dressed and happy. They
rode in automobiles. We were hungry
and went from the beach into the
woods again. Walter wanted to go
down to the lake and jump in, but the
water was too cold
Talk Over Good Times.
I'VE talked it all over again and
talked about all the good times We had
had together in our travels We talked
about Pennsylvania and Colorado, and
Salt Lake City and its big lake, and
California.
Then we went up to the rifle range
where the soldiers were practicing.
We hid in the bushes and talked about
dying. | told him II he would lead we
would run from the bushes out in
front of the targets when the soldiers
fired and die there, but he would not.
Il don't know just how long we
wandered after that, but it was night,
and we kept hid. 1t came daylight
again, and we heard voices of men and
women near us. and | thought they
were hunting us.
1T was warm and we were tired and
lay down to sleep. We talked it all
over again. and | urged him to leave
me and go to his friends. He threw
his arms around my neck and cried,
and said he would never leave me.
5sres Breast; Asks Death. 1
He said he would go to his grand
pa. and that could go to my father in
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-06-05
All for Publicity.

Lincoln, Neb., May 2S.-William ].
Bryan Tuesday afternoon received a
telegram from Secretary Taft contain.
ing the views of the latter on pub
ucity in regard to campaign contrlbu.
tons. Mr.. Bryan sent a reply stating
that he was much gratifed with the
secretary's stand for publicity.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-06-05
Santa Fe Men Laid Off.

Topeka, Kan, May 29.-An order
was Wednesday night put into effect
by the Santa Fe suspending work Of
all but apprentices in several depart
ments of the local shops. About 1000
men are said to be thrown out of en-
ployment. Thirty-two men in the
blacksmithshop have been laid off till
June IT, A similar order was issued
at the Newton shops.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-06-05

the next world. gave him some
laudanum, and he slept again, but 1t
was not enough to keep him asleep.
He woke again and thought was try
ing to leave him.
"Then he opened his coat and shirt
and pulled them back with his hand,
showing me where to strike, and
opened my clothes so could kill my
| self, too. He showed me where his
heart was, and begged me not to miss
the place. Then he lay back on my
arm again and went to sleep.
81 lay there and looked at him and
my head went all in whirl. 1t seemed
that my brain had turned to water and
was surging all around in my head.
picked up my big hunting knife, which
| had opened before. l reached over
and felt for his heart beats and then
felt for my own. l had located the
places, but / stopped again. My nerve
was leaving me.
Pushes Dagger to Heart.
ut seems that | went crazy, but
placed the point of the knife over his
heart and pushed it down. Then l
turned it and plunged it twice into my
own breast, which was harder than
the boys.
HE awoke and saw the blood squirt
ing from my wounds. He drew his
handkerchief and put it over my breast
to stop the blood, an that was all
knew until they found me-"
Amann was still holding this hand
kerchief to his breast when found by
the guard at the army post ~ hours
after the time he gives for the stab
bling. Officers at the post think he
might have been deceived by the
clear moonlight and thought it was
day in his half-demented condition.
The confession was made as the
prisoner lay strapped to bed in one
of the hospital wards Coroner J. l..
Taylor and his deputy, Edward Conrad
of Lake county, and States Attorney
Hanna were present as Amann told
his story.
Jury Gets Whole Story.
~ CoIoHeI jury was loTHeu, Win
John Congdon as its foreman, and be-
gan the investigation into the boys
death. AS Amann grew stronger in
the hospital they agreed to wait until
he could give evidence, in the hope
that Lieut.. Griffis could obtain a con-
fession in the meantime.
Shortly after noon Amann offered |
to give his name and tell the whole
story if he could see the body of the
boy 1t was brought into his room and
he asked that it be moved closer. He
touched the body and kissed the cold
'orehead and murmured Goodbye"
Then he started in and told the
story, incoherently and with many ]
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-06-05
Nearly Ready for Adjournment.

Washington, May 29.-Aside from
the currency bill both houses of con
gress are in good condition for final
adjournment Friday. All the appro
priatlon bills except the general de
ficiency have been passed by both
houses, and the conference reports on
all except that have been finally &C.
cepted by the senate.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-06-05
The Nebraska Floods.

Beatrice. Neb.. May 3O.-A rise of
eight feet in the Blue river has flood
ed the country between here and
Barneston. Seven hundred feet of
Union Pacific track is washed out be
tween Barneston and Oketo, and the
track is under water for miles between
Oketo and Manhattan.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-06-05
To Omen More Land.

Washington. May 2S.-The house
Tuesday passed the senate bill au-
thorizing the sale of portion of the
surplus and unallotted lands in the
Cheyenne river and Standing Rock In
dian reservations in North Dakota and
South Dakota. The reservation will
open to settlement large tracts Of
lands in two states.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-06-05
TWO Victims of Kerosene.

Emporia, Kan, May 29.-Mrs. Myrtle
Bumgardner, who was burned in an
explosion while trying to start fire
with coal oil, died at four o'clock
Thursday. Her 1S-month-old boy, New
ton, who also was burned in the ex.
plosion, died Wednesday night.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-06-05
Eccentric St. Louis Man Dead.

st. Louis, May 29.-After having
served as errand man for a local candy
manufacturing firm for 40 years, Jacob
Gross, 20 years of age, who during
his years of service was never known
to wear hat, died Wednesday from
heart disease.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-06-05
Miners to Ratify Agreement.

Fort Smith, Ark, May 29.-Dele-
gates to the convention of District 81,
representing about $4,000 miners in
the southwestern coal fields, met here
Thursday to ratify the agreement
reached at Kansas City on Monday.
1t is believed there will be no oppo-
sition to the ratification of the pro.
vision of the contract.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-06-05
Two Kansas Boys Drowned.

Junction City. Kan. May 29.-Clar-
ence and Albert Hartung. sons OF
Henry Hartung, a farmer living near
Junction City. we're drowned Thursday.
They fell into a small pond. Nosone
was near when the accident occurred