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Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-28
CRADLE SONG

DETLEV Won LILIENCRoN
Lindens sleep beside the door:
Drean-elves through the garden SOAR
Sails and sails the moon-yacht SLOW
Sleeping ROSTERS family crow;
Sleep, my wulhing. sleep.
s,ean. nv Wulf. While midnight slips
Mother comes to kiss your lips;
Stretch your legs in dreamland play
Fear not yet life's stony way
Sleep, my Wulfing. sleep.
sleep. my WuIf. Time brings, too fleet,
Beating rain and biting sieet;
Living In breathless haste,
Won shall long this rest to taste
Sleep. my WulhiHs, sleep.
Lewis.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-28
GRADING FOR EXTENSION
OF ELECTRIC LINE DONE
Road Between San Bernardino and
Riverside Expected to Be in
Full Operation Before
Close of Year
Special to The Herald.

SAN BERNARDINO, Aug. 27.-Grad-
ing for the extension of the Hunting
ton electric railway system has been
completed between Riverside and the
county line, four miles south of Col
ton.
It is stated on good authority that
the line will be in operation between
this city and Riverside before the close
of the present year. Work is being
rushed on the extension, which has
practically a clear right of way.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-28
PLAN TO ERECT HOTEL EVEN
LARGER THAN THE VIRGINIA

LONG BEACH, Aug. 27.-Plans for
a six-story concrete hotel, containing
$50 rooms and to cost several hundreds
of thousands of dollars, are said to
Munson of Los Angeles, and the con-
tract to build it is reported to have
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-28
Campaign for Funds Started

Special to The Herald.
PASADENA, Aug. Plat meeting
of the recently appointed Lincoln ave-
nue. railroad committee last night steps
were taken to embark on the campaign
for $45, 900 at once.
]. Edward Kent was elected chair
man of the committee, A. c. Knight
secretary and Byron Lisk treasurer.
Thomas Stone and Willis Eason were
added to it's membership. They will
assist John Mcdonald in canVassing
the southern part of the territory to be
benefited.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-28
south Pasadena Grows RIoher

Special to The Herald.
PASADENA, Aug 27.--According to
the advance figures of City Clerk Will
liam e. Cox, South Pasadena is worth
81, 000,0U more this year than 1t was
last.
The total is now $4,374, 434, of which
real estate makes up more than half.
Money is credited at s14,014 and bill
boards are valued at $235.
Last year the total was 1884, 999.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-28
REPORT PLUMBING AS HAVING
BEEN STUFFED WITH oAKUM
Special to The Herald

Special 70 The HeraId
PASADENA, Aug. 27-Members of
the board of education have unearthed
a scandal. They find the reason the
latrine plumbing in the high school
overiiowed so inconveniently last week
when the council inspected 1t was he
cause the hopper was plugged up with
fresh plumbers oakum, such as is
commonly used in packing pipe joints.
The oakum is now locked up in the
boards safe ready for production In
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-28
Santa Ana
Office s15 N. Sycamore.
Home Phone 815.
SANTA ANA EXPERIENCES
LIGHT EARTHQUAKE SHOCKS
Plaster Falls from Ceiling of Resi-
dence Near Orange, but No Fur
Their Damage Has Been
Reported
Special to The Herald.

Special to The Herald.
SANTA ANA. Aug. 27.-An earth
quake shock was felt here early this
morning, the disturbance being suffi-
Client to shake the plaster from the
ceiling of the residence of c. C. Young,
two miles northeast of Orange.
No further damage was reported.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-28

scorched. The blaze was extinguished
by the fire department before it had
done much damage.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1908-10-29
A MISLEADING ADDRESS.

The Republican advisory committee
has published an address about state
affairs that Is full of inaccuracies.
Among other things it says the Re
publicans established and built the
asylum at Weston. That institution
was established by the state of Vir-
GINA before the war, and the Repub-
licans built only one small wing. II
was completed by the Democrats.
The university was begun under
Republican administration, but car
ried forward by the Democrats fer
twenty-six years, during all of which
time the Republican press in the state
was trying to break It down and de-
stroy it.
The bill establishing the system OF
miners hospitals was introduced by
a Democrat, in Democratic house
o. S. Mckinney, in 1899. The bill
passed the house and was after
wards passed by a Republican SEN
ate. The. appropriation to begin the
work was passed by the Democratic
house first, and then passed by the
Republican senate.
The address, however, was meant
TO misinform. The names signed 70
Il are o guarantee that It ID unfair.
misleading, utterly unreliable.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1908-10-29
TAX TICKET ARGUMENT.

II is true that the taxes Of some
taxpayers have been reduced under
the new laws. Such result would
follow radical changes in any system
of assessment, but as more taxes are
collected under the new laws than
under the old, due to the fact that ex-
penditures have been constantly In
creased the taxes Of others have
been raised. A tax system must be
Judged from the standpoint OF the
principle involved, and not measured
exclusively by the way II affects some
individuals In mere dollars and cents.
A tax ticket argument based upon
correct principles of justice and
equality, and not dependent upon the
Juggling policies OF patriotism boards
which lay levies at the discretion OF
party bosses and to serve Machine
purposes. The real question is not
whether the taxes Of one shall be less
in any particular year, but whether
the system Is founded on just and
fair principles, and will bear equality
and uniformly on all classes OF tax.
payers and every species OF taxable
property.
This the Dawson tax laws falls 10
do. They being the result OF a COM
promise between warning partisan
factions, the spirit Of principle was
subordinated to party harmony and
political expediency. The bipartisan
state tax commission reported that in
order to do equal and complete JUS
tice to all interests the tax commits
sion's scheme must be taken as a
whole. The self-constructed parti-
san committee, which finally deter
mined the law, imposed the scheme
OF the TAX COMMISSION on some
classes of taxpayers and shielded 9TH
ers from II, according to the manner
in which the several interests OF the
members OF the committee CHANGED
to be affected, thus robbing II OF that
spirit and quality Of uniform fairness
and Justice essential to every proper,
honest and wholesome system OF tax
alton. II is also quite apparent That
IL there be a reduction In the taxes OF
some taxpayers, II viii be temporary
only, and viii be mainly because
local authorities are prevented BY
temporary laws from taking adyan-
tage OF the greatly increased valua-
lions to increase local taxes; and be
cause tremendous pressure has been
put upon local levying bodies by the
state political Machine TO bring about
low local leyies for political effect,
with the inevitable result Of creating
debts that must be met later and Of
preventing public improvements nee.
esssry for public convenience and
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1908-10-29

exist in the ranks Of the Republican
party in West Virginia, and demand
that they exercise their influence to
insure to Republican voters square
deal and to obtain for the masses OF
the Republican party the orderly and
regular government Of their own af-
fairs Independent of machine domino
ton and control.
Senator Elkins is conscious strick-
en- and panic stricken. He knows he
Is guilty as charged. He attempted
to play fast and loose with both can
didates. Some sinister influence binds
him TO Swisher, for without that char
acter of men and tactics, he can never
hone to be United States senator
again. He now hangs his gate on
the Swisher post With Swisher let
him perish. He is surely doomed.
The brain, the manhood and that mill
tant power In the true Republican
party has risen in its might. 1t will
smite corruption, lying, committee
domination and machine rule With
that structure of fraud and shame and
dishonor goes goes the man who by
sins of omission and commission is re-
sponsible for its rearing. He Will
have ample time after 1913 TO betake
himself and his ducats and his duke
to the North Pole or New Mexico. 1t
will be our aim to save the party so
that those not responsible for Swish
erism and all that goes with that in
fanny. shall not suffer and that the par
ty may arise cleaner, purer and bet
ter for its purging."
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1908-10-29
cApIrArloN TAX.

The Republican State Machine
though specially processing the de
sire to increase the collection of th'
capitation tax, has refused to ALLOW
the passage of a law requiring the
payment of this tax as prerequisite
to voting, because the effect OF sucl
a law would be to deprive 1t largel!
of the colored vote on which 1t must
rely for its majority in the state.
The Democratic party, in pursuit o.
its determination to purify the poll
tics OF the state, has persistently de
clared itself In favor Of enaeting such
laws as will require the payment OF
such tax as a qualification to vote.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1908-10-29
A PLEASING SIGHT.

1t certainly is a pleasing sight TO
see such Republican organs as the
Morgantown PostChronicle feeding
from the hand OF Candidate Glass
cock. Candidate Glasscock Is the
nan who took the Greens. now run
ning the Post-C Chronicle, by the napo
OF the neck and the slack OF the pan.
falcons and threw them out OF the
Post, neck and crop. He Is the
man against whom they rallied. and
about whom they walled until the
welldn rang for miles about. And
now they feed from hls hand.
The Wheeling Intelligencer. too.
Il was the fercest denouHcer OF boss
ism that ever came down the pike.
Then II got It's price. and now Il
feeds from the Elkins hand as meekly
as any goat in, the LOT.
The Parkersburg Dispatch-News,
also. II was so honest from the
first week in July to the last week in
September that II could hardly af-
ford to associate with itself Nov
Il has returned TO the fieshpots and
has its snout buried IN the hog
trough, II the mixture Of metaphors
win be allowed.
Oh, but It's a bully bunch.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1908-10-29
ABOUT THE MINING LAWS.

The Republicans harp upon the
amount of money spent in mine in
spection and caring for the miners.
Let's see about that.
There is no doubt about the money
being spent. But what for? To
support. the most inefficient depart
ment of mines existing In any state
of the Union, as judged by results.
There has been no such loss OF LIE
among the miners of any other state
in the past few years-the years dur
ing which so much money has been
spent.
And some of these losses occurred
in mines operated in open and flag
rant violation of the law, with the
knowledge and consent of the mining
department, and, it is openly charged,
of the executive department.
Mark you!
Sam Dixon is the biggest coal pro-
Queer in Fayette county, and also the
biggest political boss. He has
number of mines in that county,
among them one at Parral and one
ut Stuart
In February, 1906, an explosion oc-
Cured in the Parral mine, and 10
lives were lost, while Is persons es-
capped alive. There was only one
opening in the mine, yet 33 people
were being worked in 1t, when the
law says explicitly that not more than
20 shall be worked in a mine that has
but one opening.
Now the district mine inspector
knew all along, of course, that the
Parral mine had but one opening,
and of course the fact was known at
the department Offices at the capitol
But nobody seems to have cared
about ii, for less than a year later
another explosion occurred in a Dixon
mine, this time at Stuart, less than
a mile away, and this time sc lives
were lost, and there, too, there was
but one opening.
Now it does seem like there should
have been a shaking up in the mining
department at Charleston, doesn't 1t?
Well, one inspector was fired, 1t Is
true; but the chief inspector was re-
tanned. and the governor, with whose
connivance the law was thus broken,
still sits in the executive Office and
is now busily engaged in trying to
name his successor.
And nobody was indicted and pun
ished.
Why?
Thereby hangs very considerable
tale.
Sam Dixon, coal baron and political
boss, had been one of the most vigor-
Gus fighters of the Dawson tax laws,
opd uoe ono of tho stprneSt ODDOQ-
ents of the machine succession. But
Dixon owned a newspaper at Charles
ton, and he was worth making peace
with.
So he was given an immunity bath,
warranted to protect him against
any kind of legal attack. And the
price was the support Of his news
paper, the Charleston Mail, for the
machine ticket.
There should be some criminal
prosecutions, and the administration
that winked at Dixon's violation OF
the law until 104 lives were made to
pay the penalty, should be driven
from power in shame and disgrace.
Trafflcking in the lives of men Is
rather too tough business even for
the state house machine to be al
lowed to engage in without rebuke.
Yes, the republicans have spent
great deal of money In behalf of the
miners, but the biggest boss OF the
bunch has been allowed to violate the
mining laws at will.
When he was willing to pay for 1t.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1908-10-29
LOUIS BENEFITS MANLY CAM
PAIGN.

No man ever made manlier, bold
er campaign than has Louis Bennett.
Having the courage of his convic-
TONS, he has not hesitated to take
the people into his confidence and
tell them just where he stands on all
public questions. Especially is this
noticeable in the matter Of the race
planks in the Democratic platform,
because it presents such contrast to
the evasive course of Candidate
Glasscock Mr.. Bennett says he Is
for negro Acknowledgement and the
Jim Grow" law, but Glasscock,
while he declares he is opposed TO
the Acknowledgement of the negro, re-
fuses to say where he stands on the
Jim Grow" proposition.
Mr.. Bennett takes advanced posi-
ton on the matter of road building,
being in favor of utilizing the labor
of convicts in that work This would
remove them from competition with
free labor, and would soon give the
state a net work of good roads.
Mr.. Bennett announces himself in
favor of free text books for the chill
dren who attend the public schools
He is in favor of giving every child
In the state the best possible oppor-
tunity 10 obtain an eductian.
Mr. Bennett is against graft and ex-
travagance, and If elected will cut
down the expenses of the government
very greatly, without in the least in
Turing its efficiency.
In short, Louis Bennett is an ideal
man for Governor-well informed
courageous, immovably honest, amply
able to handle large affairs.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1908-10-29

Just a word here about tax dodg-
ing.
Governor Dawson owns a building in
Charleston which was erected for the
occupany of the printing plant that
had and has the state printing con-
tract. He leased il to the owners
of that concern for a term OF years,
which expired last December He
was being paid something more than
eight hundred dollars year for rent.
When the printing company's lease
was about to expire he wanted to
raise the rent. so the printing people
decided to move out, but not until
they made him an offer of $4,000 for
the building. He refused IL, demand
ing $4,000.
The land books of Kanawha county
show that the property is assessed
at Sl1,55O.
Any tax lodging there?
But that is not all. The second
floor of that building has recently
been leased by the state for use as
an armory, and the price paid is
$500 annually. The first floor is
not rented.
Now what do you think of a man
who yells tax dodger" at everybody
who finds the new tax laws not salts.
factory, and yet who allows property
worth an annual rental of more than
S1,5e9 to be assessed to him at
S11,550?
Is that tax lodging, or what?
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1908-10-29
THINGS LEFT OUT.

The address recently promulgated
by the Republican advisory commit
tee failed TO state how Il was that
the Republican senate Of 1907 spent
a contingent fund Of $4,000. while
the house, almost three times az
large in membership. got along with
$4,000. It also falls 20 tell why
the senate OF 1907 spent SZ0,Sz3 for
attaches, while the house paid but
sI2,115.
Il Hils 10 tell why the senate Of
1907 spent for contingent expense
SI4.S1 a day for each member, while
the Democratic senate Of 1893 spent
but $1.45 a day for each member for
the same purpose. Nor does Il say
Why the attaches Of the senate IN
1907 cost 1882 q day for each mem
Der when In the Democratic senate
OF 1899 they cost but 1927 day for
each member.
II won't do TO answer this BY say
ing wages have advanced since 1889
The wages we're the same In 1907 ~
In 1893. but the number Of persons
hired was Eve times az great. and
the work no more.
The fact Is the recent addresS
gotten out BY the Republican advisory
committee Is. and was intended 70 be,
untruthful. misleading and unreliable.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1908-10-29
AN APPEAL To
The PEOPLE

The original and fundamental idea
OF the American system Of govern
ment is that the aggregate taxes
gathered from the people should be
kept within the limits required hy
necessary expenditures, while the In
spring motive and chief objection Of
our entire system, national and state,
has been to get larger taxes from
the great body of taxpayers without
any reference TO the necessity or
character OF the expenses that have
made them necessary. While In our
own state, during the whole agitation
Of the tax question. the interests OF
one class of taxpayers has been skill
fully played against that OF another
under the specious pretense OF equal.
izing tax burdens, there has not been
single genuine effort TO tighten the
taxes OF the people, which could have
been so readily and easily accom-
plished by reducing the annual legis.
lative appropriations that have grown
to such enormous and unnecessary
proportions since the Republicans
have been in control OF the state.
Reform Tax" is nothing more than
a pretext to cover the tremendous
OUTLAWS OF public revenue that have
grown continually larger since the
Republican party came into power in
the state.
In a message sent TO the legisla'
ture at It's session OF 1903, accom-
panying the report Of the State Tax
Commissioner appointed In 1901, Gov
ernor White said:
1T being necessary to obtain more.
revenue for state purposes, and de-
sirable to amend the laws concerning
the subjects. rate, assessments, col
lection and disbursements OF taxes in
itself as well as incidental 10 the
principal object Of increasing the
states revenue, led the legislature 20
appoint Tax Commission, etc"
Thus II Is admitted that the real
object OF tampering with the states
tax laws was to obtain more money.
and this has been extravagantly
aquandered.
The Democratic party believes that
I we'll directed, frugally and econ
Dmically administered government is
he best fruit of genuine statesman~
ship. and that II the state govern
nent were so administered. expendi.
ures would be so reduced that the
axes of all the people of the com
nonwealth would be lessened. instead
# being increased, as they now are,
lnder the pretense Of being equal
zed.
Il is believed also that no single
esult would be followed with greater
enefits TO the whole people OF the
tate than the complete overthrow
I'D rout Of the present state house
iachine.
In the hope OF being able 10 carry
ut It's aspirations TO provide a pure
fficlent and economical state govern
nent, the Democratic party presents
or the various Offices q ticket com.
,osed of gentlemen of the highest
ublic and private character, deeply
sensible OF Official obligations, aud
minently qualified TO discharge the
lutles OF the position to which thes
aspire.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1908-10-29
A SAMPLE OF oAwsoNIsM.

OF all the men In the State Gov
ernor Dawson mas been the readiest
to yell Htax dodger" at anybody who
opposes the new tax laws. It mat
tiers not what the reason for that op'
position, the opposer Is tax dodg
err" IN the eyes of the Governor.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1908-12-12
OKLA. CENTRAL
BOUGHT BY
KATY?

Oklahoma City. Dec. l2.-Announce
ment that B. NJ Halle, brother of C
Halle, vice president In charge of traf
fic Of the Missouri. Kansas & Texas
has taken charge of the traffic depart
ment Of the Oklahoma Central rail
road, has given rise to rumor which
is not without credit in railroad circles
that the Missouri, Kansas & Texas has
bought the oklahoma line.
B. NJ. Haile's headquarters are to
be at Purcell and he succeeds ]. P.
O'Donnell, resigned. It is understood
that Dorset Carter. who built the road,
will, by Jan. 1, give wsy in the active
management to a new general man.
ager whose identity has not been dis.
closed and will devote his entire time
to pushing the building of the road
from Lehigh, Okla, to Paris. Texas,
and northwest from Chickasha.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1908-12-12
Buy ACreSIn
FairlaWn

Today a deal was closed whereby the
Catholics Of the city purchased five
acres in the new Fairlawn cemetery
west Of town and tomorrow they will
make two interments in the same On
next Tuesday they will begin the work
Of removing thirty-seven bodies from
the old cemetery 10 Fairlawn.
Already the new cemetery is begin
ming to take on the appearance Of the
modern city Of the dead which is
planned by its promoters. Walks and
drives have been laid off, the sod be-
ing removed, trees and shrubs have
been set out and ground for the chapel
has been broken. A large force Of
men will be employed till the work is
completed and no expense will be
spared to give Chickasha as pretty
a cemetery as there is in the coun-
try.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1908-12-12
sPEelAL notice.

The vaudeville sketch team at the
Biiou Theater Monday, Tuesday and
Wednesday, Rivers & Rochester. e
have been secured after an effort on
the part Of the managers. Rivers &
Rochester are a team OF Australian
singers who depend entirely upon their
voices for securing future bookings.
Their act is an entirely new one in
this country, It being Turkish play
cite showing the life of a Turkish
princess who has fallen in love with
an American sailor who has been
stranded upon an island. These peo-
pie have travelled throughout the
world. having showed before royalty.
To witness this act will be to see some
thing more than ordinary SO don't fail
to come and bring the children. Re
member the dates. Monday, Tuesday
and Wednesday. Dec. Il, Is and 16.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1908-12-12
FORMER FEDERATION
PRESIDENT WRITES LETTER

In letter to Mrs Eugene Hamilton
Of this city, Mrs d. A. McDougal, of
Sapulpa, who was the last president of
the Indian Territory Federation Of
Women's Clubs, writes that she is just
recovering from an illness of three
weeks. Reviewing the work Of the re-
cent convention at Ardmore. Mrs. Nc
Dougal expresses the belief that the
united declarations have bright fu-
ture. She highly compliments Mrs.
Hamilton on the song which she sang
at the meeting and manifests a keen
interest In the clubs of Chickasha.
Mrs. McDougal is now vice presi-
dent of the Oklahoma Federation.