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Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-05-27
NATIVES ADOPT
IMPORTANT RULE
EXCLUDE GRAND OFFICERS
FROM BOARD
Members of Order In State Are Asked
to Gather Relics of the Pio-
neers for Suffers
Fort
By Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
YOSEMITE, May 26.-At today's ses-
sion of the grand parlor, Native Sons
of the Golden West, legislation of i'm
portance was adopted. 1t was decided
to exclude the grand treasurer, grand
marshal, grand organizer and grand
sentinels from the board of grand Of
ficers. and there was also adopted a
resolution providing that any grand
officer failing to visit the parlors as
signed to him during his term would De
ineligible for reelection.
The grand parlor passed resolution
eulogizing the late Frank d. Ryan and
J. D. Sprout, formerly grand presl-
dents of the order.
elaborate flags were presented to the
grand parlor by William r. Hearst.
who is q member of Seapoint parlor OF
Sausilito.
Judge Thomas M. Lennon of San
Rafael made the presentation speech.
In the afternoon the delegates anG
their families were entertained by an
exhibition drill, sham battle and other
features by two troops of the Four
tenth cavaly under Maj. H. G. Benson.
Later the grand parlor appropriated
$3.50 to provide a set of battle flags Tor
the cruiser California.
IT was resolved that one of the flags
be bear flag, If the navy department
would permit 1t to be accepted.
A resolution was adopted asking Ma
tive Sons in the state to gather relics
of pioneers and send them to Suffer-
fort, at Sacramento. Arrangements
have already been made by the Native
Daughters to bring Gen. Suffers body
from Pennsylvania and inter 1t in the
old fort.
Benjamin Ide Wheeler, president OF
the University of California, addressed
the delegates during the day. HE re-
ferred to the fact that he is a native
of California by choice, and closed his
remarks by asking all to stand for the
| freedom and independence established
| by their forefathers.
This evening there was dance and
| fireworks.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-05-27
DISCORD ENTERS
CHURCH AFFAIRS
WOULD CHANGE PERSONNEL
OF COMMITTEE
Presbyterians Are Dissatisfied Because
Bible and Christianity Are Not
Given More Prominence
in Schools
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, May 26.-Dis-
cord entered for the first time into the
proceedings of the assembly of the
Presbyterian Church of the United
States, while the committee on the adj
ministrative agencies was under dis
cussion.
1t was apparent during the heated
discussion OF the report that there is
in the general assembly strong SEN
timent in favor of reorganization or the
administrative agencies of the church
by changing the personnel of this i'm
portant committee, although motion
to that effect was defeated. 1t was
declared that too much power was
given to the twenty-one members of
the committee and that no officer or
any board of the church except the
he reverted to 1900 years before the
istrative agencies committee.
During discussion of the report OF
the committee on colleges the speak
ers expressed dissatisfaction that the
Bible and Christianity are not given
more prominence by the grammar
schools of the country. One speaker
cited an instance of objection being
raised to the singing of Christmas
carols in public school.
Dr. William McKibben of Cincinnati
said that college teachers must be men
of the right character.
II do not subscribe to the belief that
there Is any affinity between learning
and impiety," he said.
He said there was an instructor in
Cincinnati who teaches philosophy in
the class room and free love out"
Dr. Mark Matthews of Seattle urged
members of the churches to send their
boys and girls to the Presbyterian
colleges. He insisted the colleges had
the right to demand the money and
students from the church members
necessary to their support.
Seattle, Denver and Oklahoma City
have entered the campaign for next
years assembly and Seattle seems to
be favored by most Of the commits
sionerS
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-05-27
CATALINA MAN
DROPSFROMSIGHT
SEARCHING PARTIES SC0UR
THE HILLS
Avalon Resident Leaves Home for
Two Days Jaunt and All Efforts
to Find Trace of Him
Are Vain

Special TO The Herald.
AVALON. May 26.-Anxiously search
ing every nook and point of this island.
hundreds of searchers are tonight on
foot seeking trace of H. Grafton, a
known man, who has been living
here for some time, and who, last We'd
nesday, babe his friends a laughing
farewell with enc words that he in
tended taking a jaunt into the hills.
So convinced are many that the man
lost his footing and fell from some
high cliff into some chasm that many
OF the searchers are carrying ropes and
tackles, to be prepared to go for the
body in case 1T is seen.
Grafton was so years of age, unmar-
ried and was of exceptionally good
habits. He did not drink, seldom
smoked and was very regular in his
conduct.
Last Tuesday Mr.. Grafton told G..
Whitney, an intimate friend and en-
ployer, that he thought he would pass
a few days tramping In the hills and
taking a vacation.
Wednesday noon he was seen on
Metropole avenue, and for several min
utes chatted with friends he met.
Organize Search
Sunday morning, when nothing was
heard of him, Mr. Whitney and other
friends began to fear something had
happened the man. Nothing was done
by them, however, until Monday morn
ing, when several small parties
searched the hills in the immediate
vicinity of Avalon.
These parties were unable to secure
any trace of Mr.. Grafton, and none of
the campers they met were able to tell
them anything of the man.
At last 1t was decided to return to
town and organize a large party, scour
the hills and do all in their power to
locate the man.
When the different parties returned
to Avalon, meetings were called and
parties, each under a guide, started
forth. The most experienced guides on
the island head the different parties
and 1t is improbable they will return
without word Of the missing man.
A peculiar thing about the disap-
pearance is that Grafton, at the time
he left, wore his best suit of clothes
an expensive one. and not In the least
suitable for tramping through the hills
Grafton never Showed any signs OF
insanity, and those who knew him wei
do not believe he wandered away while
demented. He was a great student AND
an ardent admirer of Shakespeare. He
was seldom seen without copy of the
poets works in his pocket and was
known as an authority on the great
authors plays.
Investigation here has failed to re.
veal that Grafton ever had difficulty
with any person in this town or on the
| island.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-05-27
cREDENTlAL FILING TIME
WILL COME TO END TODAY
Preiinlnaries for Republican National
Convention at Chicago Are About
conpleted-sixty-two
Contests

BY Associated Press
CHICAGO, May 26.-The last stages
of the prelifninaries to the Republican
national convention have been reached,
the time for filing credentials with the
national committee expiring tomorrow
Secretary Elmer p. Dover has SIM
plified the work of the national COM
mittee by resigning as one of the con-
testing delegates from the Tenth Ohio
district.
Contestants not only are filing their
credentials by mall. but they are fol-
lowing them up In person. They came
from the extreme ends of the country
yesterday, A. r. Bryan arriving from
Alaska, where there is slight differ
ence OF opinion as to what particular
Republicans should sit in the conven-
ton, and Henry S. Cubb, chairman of
the Florida state committee, put In an
appearance.
All credentials must be in the mails
by tomorrow night and on their way
to Chicago. At their last count the
committee had knowledge OF sixty-two
contests In districts and six in the
states. Since that time a flood of
credentials have been delivered and
there will be no further figures until
an examination of them determines
how many districts have sent in more
than one set.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-05-27
FOGS INDICATE TROPICAL
CLIMATE FOR NEW YORK
Captain of American Liner Says Gulf
Stream Is Every Day Getting y
Closer to the Metrop-
oils
Rx Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 26.-That the fogs
which have been hanging over New
York harbor and it's approaches for
several days, greatly interfering with
shipping. are the forerunners of a
tropical climate for New York is the
opinion expressed by Capt Arthur
Mills, commander of the American
liner Philadelphia, which was delayed
outside Sandy Hook for many hours
by the fog.
TITS the gulf stream" he said. shak-
ing his head THE stream Is getting
closer to New York every year and /
expect, If live that long, to see the
gulf stream running right past our
city. with an almost continuous fog
rolling in from the sea"
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-05-27
EMPRESS OF JAPAN CARRIES
MANY ORIENTAL DIGNITARiEs
By Associated Press.

VICTORIA. B. c., May 26.-Amohg
the passengers on the steamer Empress
of Japan, which has just arrived here
from the Orient. are Prince Narayan.
son OF the rajah of Cooch Behar. bound
to England by way of the United
States; Lady Lugard. wife of the gov
dered from Hongkong by her physi-
slams: Sir Haviland de Sausmares,
CHEF justice of Hongkong, and Lady
psmares. Captain and Lady Violet
4 KAderson, Comtesse de Segonzac. and
4 Ely others.
y US. Rennie, widow of the Hongkong
mill man who recently committed sui
eide ht Hongkong, was also a passen-
ger. There were SIS Chinese on the
steamer. OF whom 1920 win pay $50, 900 In
head tax.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-05-27
COAST

Native Sons of Golden West adopt
important legislation at session In
Yosemite valley.
san Francisco merchants would have
present harbor commission made per-
Fifteen thousand parade in streets
of Seattle. -.
prosecution of untried land fraud
cases.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-05-27
SUBMARINE EARTHQUAKE
NEARLY WRECKS STEAMER
Great Wall of Water Rises from Per-
fectIy Calm Sea and Norwe-
gian Vessel Is Almost
Swamped
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press
NEW YORK, May ga single
great wave directly in front of her
bow almost wrecked the Norwegian
tramp steamer Joseph X. Cuneo on
cruise from Port Antonio. Jamaica,
which she has just finished.
1--WE were in a perfectly calm sea-"
said Capt. Aamdt in quarantine, "on
sunshiny day when suddenly wall
of water thirty feet high reared In
front of our bow and pitched us up
and up until thought we would never
stop. We almost turned somersault.
"a second wave lifted us as high
again. but this time we kept level.
That was all, except hundreds of dead
fish hoated on the surface as we
steamed away He thinks the waves
were caused by a submarine earth
Quake. The ship was not harmed.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-05-27
INITIATION REQUIRED
CANDIDATE TO STEAL
Ann Arbor Student Makes Novel Plea
When Arralgned Before JUS
tlces on Charge Of
Theft
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May ga dispatch
to the Tribune from Ann Arbor, Mich,
says: That he was forced TO steal as
a part of his secret society initiation
ritual, was the plea of George Van
Brunt of Kansas City in Justice Doty's
court yesterday.
Van Brunt and Thomas G. VANITY of
Grand Rapids spent Sunday in jail.
The boys, with several companions,
were returning home after a session at
the Pipe and Bowl club, when a police
man says they attempted to steal red
light from building. He placed Van
Brunt under arrest, whereupon the
others tried to take him from the Off
Ger. After a scrimmage all the stu
dents fled, but VANITY was caught.
They We're arraigned and pleaded
guilty to disorderly conduct. Van
Brunt was fined $50 and costs and
VANITY $40. Van Brunt has been sus-
pended by the university for one year.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-05-27
LOCAL

Rudolph Spreckels, noted enemy Of
graft, addresses the Lincoln Roosevelt
league. Denounces men Who accept
office at hands of machine.
Anxious friends search for missing
woman, and schoolboys aid police.
Avalon man mysteriously disappears
and hundreds of4searchers seek body.
McComas, slayer of Mrs. Moves, I'M
dergoes scathfng cross-examination.
Bigamist Wilde pleads for mercy.
clubs decide to fight antt-liquor ord
nance.
cafes warned to obey law.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-05-27
EASTERN

Rev. Robert Mcintyre Is elected
bishon on sixteenth ballot
Many foreigners attend hanging on
invitation of sheriff who wishes to inn
press object lesson.
Hull of new battleship Michigan Is
launched.
Presbyterians have heated session at
general conference.
Cleveland street car strike Win De
continued and all efforts to arpitrate
are practically at an end.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-05-27
FOREIGN

President Of France Is rendered mag
nificent state ball at Buckingham PAL
ace.
German statesman believes Germany
and France will soon hate each otner
less because II is good business.
Russian prince fights duels with two
brothers and wounds both.
Korean crown prince will soon make
tour OF United States.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-05-27
THE NEWS SUMMARY
FORECAST

For Los Angeles and vicinity:
Cloudy Wednesday; fresh south winds.
Maximum temperature yesterday, 6s
degrees; minimum, 65 degrees.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-12-31
ADVANCE GUARD OFF
FOR STATE CAPITAL
Attorney Bretsch of Gary on
the Ground for Superior
Court.
WILL FEEL OUT members
Committee Is Ready to Spend Thous
ands of Dollars and Wants
solons to Visit City.

Atty. C. Bretsch of Gary left today
for the state capital where he will
spend his time for severa days to
come looking over the situation and
preparing to sound the alarm when
the time arrives for the Lake superior
cour question to come up in the legis-
Iature, so that the lobbyists of Gary
can be on the floor when the bill comes
up for passage
The exact plan of the Citizens Gen.
eral committee to secure favorable leg
islation will not be divulged by them,
owing to the fact that they do not
desire TO show their hand to their OPP
ponents in the race. The only thing
that they were willing to release.
however. is the fact that they will in
wife the legislature to this city to see
for themselves the conditions which
exist.
A member of the finance committee
which was appointed to raise enough
money to fight for the court said yes
terday that he thought that there
would be no difficulty, if it was ne
cessary to raise $4,000 from the vari-
Gus associations which have taken the
matter up. If the Legislature is not
brought to Gary. large amount OF
this money will be spent in sending tc
Indianapolis big delegation who will
work among their friends in the legis-
lature.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-12-31
EXCITING RACES
WITH STEAM CARS
On New Carlisle-South Bend Fiji
teen-Mile Stretch, Electric and
Steam Roads Parallel and Pas
sengers On Both Lake Shores Are
Entertained.

The Chicago, Lake Shore & South
Bend trains running B4ween Gary and
South Bend have now reached such a
stage of perfection In operation that
speed of nearly a mile a minute is
maintained ON stretches of the road
bed. Certain officials of the line who
were in Gary recently told of exciting
races which had recently occurred on
the line between their trains and those
of the Lake shore railroad.
On the stretch between New Carlisle
and South Bend where the two roads
parallel for a distance of fifteen miles,
there is seldom a day but what sees
most exciting races. The officials of
the interurban say that with an ordin-
airy passenger train their electric cars
simply walk away from the train. They
some times let them pass the cars and
then catch up to them just for fun
Can Out-Do s20th Century,
Manager H. U. Wallace of the inter-
urban, Attorney ]. E. Lewis Meyers
and other officials of the company are
accustomed every morning to leave
South Bend on certain car just for
the purpose of seeing the race between
their car and the Twentieth Century
limited. They claim that while they
are both running at their best speed
that the interurbans can even out-run
the famous Twentieth Century.
In regard to the Toleston spur which
the road is building, they now have
the track almost completed and are
busy strining the wires. They expect
to have the line in operation by ten
days or two weeks
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-12-31

disaster in southern Italy and Sicily can
only be measured by the fact that it is
now estimated that 10000 persons
persisted in Messina and Reggie alone.
A score of other towns have been de-
wasted and thousands of victims in
these places must be added to the roll.
In the face of these awful totals. all
Italy stands appalled,.
Nor has the full death list yet been
reached Ship loads of fugitives have
arrived at Naples and other ports, and
the vast majority of these are sorely
injured. Other thousands remain near
the ruins of their homes or wander
half-starving, half-clothed over the
land. The forces that on Monday over
whelmed the cities also destroyed the
means of sustenance.
TeIegraphic communication has been
established with Messina, the apparatus
having been established in a railway
van. Messages which have come over
the line, though they have been meager
in detail, show that hope is gone.
Nothing remains of the city but a
mass of ruins that have been swept by
| fire. A few survivors are being cared
| for by the rescuing forces, but their
| distress is great and it has been in
creased by the violent icy winds that
! followed the deluge of rain. Destitu-
ton is everywhere and appalling. There
| is little food and less water. OF Mes
sinas $4,000 population 1t is believed
that fully 10000 persisted. Forty thou
sand persons died in Reggio.
| Catania. Dec. 30.-I have just re-
1 +,.,- ~ It, I.
| solutely destroyed The spectacle is g
prey of roaring flames.
A great confiagration broke out i'm
mediately after the earthquake and de.
voured all that the earth shocks had
spared
/ Nearly the entire population is buried
| in the debris. The latest calculation:
| place the total number of survivors a.
| only 10000. The dead at Messina alone
reach the stupendous figure of nearly
100. 900.
Help from the outer world is at las
| beginning to reach the stricken city
The British cruiser Sutlej steamed il
today from Malta and was followed BY
the Russian battleships Slava and Gar
ewitch and the cruiser Admiral Maka
rouf The officers and men of the tw,
navies are giving every possible aid
yet their task is fearful one.
Dig IN VAIN FOR FOOD.
Under the pelting rain epen-air hos
/ pitfalls are being installed in what wer.
one the streets of the town. The sight
on every hand are moving, so trag
ic, that it is almost impossible to de
- 49,.
man language. The utmost depths o
anguish and suffering seem to hav
been sounded and imagination stand
aghast before the effect of this catas
trophe.
The entire garrison of Messina ha
persisted in the ruins and people win
! survive unhurt cannot escape from tn
vast smoltering tomb in which tbei
kinsmen. wives. husbands, parents an
children lie. The sea is closed to then
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-12-31

from want of ships and they are suf-
fering the cruel extremities of hunger
and thirst
Here and there they can be seen
searching eagerly in the debris and uni
versal ruin for some morsels to eat
or for water to drink, but the heaps
of dust and debris yield them moth
ing.
Numerous detachments to give first
aid have been organized in Catania and
they left for Messina last evening, rail-
way communication being then restored
by the desperate exertions of the troops
and railway staffs. The telegraph and
telephone services, however, are not yet
working. The absolute want of food
and water at Messina renders it diff
cult to give assistance
At every turn some lamentable scene
meets the eyes. Men and women half
naked and terribly injured are implor-
ing relief. The hospitals and chemists
shops have disappeared aind there are
neither drugs nor surgical instruments
/ at hand.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-12-31
LOUCKS RISING
IN RAILROAD WORLD
Will Take Charge of East
Chicago Office of Pere
Marquette.
GRADUATE OF HIGAsCHooL
Has Made Good in Business World
and Further Advancement
Is in Sight.
Especial to THE TIMEs.)

East Chicago, Ind. Dec. 31.-That the
average East Chicago boy is capable
of raising to point of vantage in
every mart of human activity has been
demonstrated heretofore, and il re-
manned but for Virgil Loucks, of Ma
gound avenue to demonstrate his abil-
ity to progress. In a letter received
by Mr.. Loucks yesterday, he was in
formed that commencing Jan. 1st, he
would fill the position of agent for the
Pere Marquette railroad in this city.
He will succeed Mr.. j. II. Galliver, who
has been with the corporation for
number of years and who will take
charge of what is known as the Tracey
Avenue station in Chicago.
Mr.. Loucks is a thorough East Chs
cago boy, and was a member of the
local high school class. graduating in
1904. For the past four years he has
engaged in railroad office work, on
April 1st of last year accepting a po-
sition as cashier for the P. III. Ry in
this city. His advancement is a rapid
one and almost established record in
railroad circles.
An Important Office.
The Pere Marquette local branch Is
for freight uses only and operates over
the c. t T. belt tracks. Notwithstand-
ing this fact, the East Chicago sta
ton is regarded as the most important
between Chicago and Michigan City. as
at this point the transfer records to
the Chicago belt lines are made. The
freight business over the P. NJ in a,
single month often amounts to as high
as $4,000
AS his chief clerk. Mr.. Loucks has
selected Marion Westby, of this city,
wro for some time has been working
for the Indiana HaTbor road at Glib
son. Those who know both Mr.. West
by and the new agent are confident
that the business of the road will be
strictly watched and the interests of
the road guarded to the utmost
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-12-31

IF IT'S ADVERTISED IT'S WORTH
LOOKING UP
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-12-31
GARY COUPLE REWED
Especial to THE TINES. )

Chicago. H.. Dec. 3l.-Emil Thurow.
a Gary carpenter. was remarked to his
wife at Genevea. ILL.,. yesterday after
noon.
Last October Mrs. Thurow in Lake
county court got divorce from her
husband on the grounds of desertion.
They met again during the holidays
ard decided that life without each
other wasn't worth living.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-12-31
NEW BANK AT FoRTvILLE, IND

Washington. Dec s1.-A certificate
has been issued authorizing the First
National Bank of Fortville, Ind, CAPT
tai stock $4,000. to begin business.
John G. McCord will be president; Will
liam r. Rash. vice-president; o. l.
Morrow. cashier. W. S. Todd and John
A. McComsts assistant cashiers.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1908-08-01

ing can make the landscape
divinely and sovereignty
beautiful without "A delicate
ground. without green fields.
And the gorgeous sideboard.
bookcase. cabinet. library
table and shining parlor
chairs lose half their comeli-
ness and charm on bare floors.
John NJ. Smyth Company be-
lieve that nothing can be too
pretty for the floors of mod.
est homes. nothing too Law
ishly or brilliantly orna-
mental for the floors Of opu.
lent homes. and the display
OF rugs and carpets now
proving of such interest to
housekeepcrs is unparalleled
either in general volume of
new goods. in wealth of rare
fabrics and gorgeous patterns
or in range of styles and end
less variety of offerings: