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Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-13
CITY ITS OWN
POUNDMASTER
PROPOSE INSPECTOR UNDER
CIVIL SERVICE
MAYOR AND COUNCIL ARRIVE AT
UNDERSTANDING
Drafting of Ordinance in Connection
with Dog Problem Delayed for
Another Week Owing to
Hewitt's Absence

The dog catcher ordinance will not
be reported to the city council Mon
day. 1t will go over another week in
order to give City Attorney Hewitt
time to prepare the measure. Mr..
Hewitt must leave for Sacramento Fri
day, to conduct some of the city's
cases, and will not return for a week.
On that account he will have no time
until his return to prepare the ordi-
nance.
When the new measure is presented
to the council for passage it will pro-
vide for an inspector under civil SER
vice rules. This inspector will trace
out the owners of all unlicensed dogs,
arrest them and, with the assistance
of the city attorney, prosecute cases
against them. The owner on convic-
ton will be fined for a misdemeanor
and compelled to furnish a license for
his dog. Dogs for which no owners
can be found will be destroyed.
The city will be it's own pound
master under the new ordinance, and
neither the S. p. c. A. nor the new
organization of the kind that has re-
Gently been formed will be given the
work of caring for unlicensed dogs.
This is made necessary by the very
fact that each of these two societies
has presented a claim for the work.
These facts were agreed on at a
meeting of the special committee. con-
sisting of Councilman Lyon, Blanchard,
Dromgold and Pease, with the mayor,
the city attorney and the city auditor,
in the mayors Office last night.
This is the first time this committee
has had an opportunity to get to-
gether on the question. When it met
every member was of the opinion that
some change had to be made in the
dog ordinance. The nature of the
change was the only point on which
the committee split. There were some
who favored giving the work to the
S. p. C. A., on a percentage of the
fines collected. Others favored the new
Animal Home organization, and others,
notably the mayor, favored the plan
of doing the work under civil service.
The mayors ideas prevailed and the
new ordinance will be along those
lines.
The city attorney had been instructed
last Monday to present an ordinance
after the model furnished by the Pasa-
dena law, whereby the S. P. c. A.
conducts the dog catching business
and receives a percentage of the fines
levied on owners who fail to provide
licenses for their animals. He was
also instructed to prepare a draft of
a contract with this organization.
These instructions were superseded by
the ones given him yesterday.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-13
[NEVSOF TH[COuRIS |I2IAl
FATHER ALLEGED TO
HAVE KIDNAPPED GIRL
DIVORCE SUIT FILED AFTER
CHILD DISAPPEARED
Former Detective Employed by Mining
Interests at Risbee, Ariz., Ae-
cused Of Cruelty and
Neglect

Divorce papers were filed yesterday
IN the superior court by Alice Gertrude
Clark against Claude Hunter Clark, the
charges being cruelty and neglect.
Clark was employed at one time as a
detective for mining interests in Bis
bee, Ariz., and came to Los Angeles
where his wife and little daughter re-
side.
The filing of the suit also brings to
light the stealthy removal from MRS;
Clarks care of the Clark child, girl
years old, and officers believe she was
taken by her father a couple OF days
ago during the temporary absence OF
the mother from home.
While nothing could be learned den-
nitely of the fathers whereabouts, II
was stated that those in search of the
child have gained a knowledge OF his
movements. Mrs. Clark's attorney yes
terday secured an order from Judge
James of the superior court command
ing Clark's presence Friday morning
with the child, If she is under his
charge. If the father has the little
one it is expected an effort Will be
made to have her placed in care of her
mother pending the divorce suit.
Albert Randolph Ross yesterday filed
suit for divorce against Della May Ross
on statutory grounds.
Other suits filed were those of W. 10.
Martin against Clara o. Martin, j..
Tucker against Selma Tucker, and ABB
bic /. Keller against ]. H. Keller.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-13
CITY PROSECUTOR
RAPS MAYOR HARPER
W00LWINE THINKS VICIOUS
DENS SHOULD BE CLOSED
Believes the Proposed Commission of
Fifty Is Merely for the Pur-
pose of Supporting
Executive

The commission of fifty proposed by
the mayor to determine a solution of
the "redlight" problem does not meet
with the approval of Thomas L. Wool
wine, prosecuting attorney.
In a written statement issued yes
terday Mr.. Woolwine says:
Lately the people of Los Angeles
have been witnessing the humiliating
and deplorable spectacle Of the mayor
and police commissioners, whose duty
it is to enforce a law passed by the
legislature Of this state, holding pro-
tracted secret sessions with a view TO
arriving at some plan by which they
can evade the enforcement of the law
with the least public condemnation.
This matter of public officers tenn
PORTING with crime is infamous.
Are the people of this city so blind
that they cannot see the true inward
ness of what is going on? Can any
sane man doubt the plain fact that the
mayor of this city is tied hand and foot
by the most corrupt and law-breaking
element?
criticlses Mayor
"After hours of laborious consulta-
ton L understand the mayor has de-
cided to appoint a committee OF nfty
citizens of his own choosing, with each
of whom he desires to discuss the mat
ter before appointment. 1t is needless
to saw that was not present at any of
these consultations, although 1t was
my right as prosecuting officer of this
city to be present, and 1t would nave
given me some pleasure to nave toid
them just exactly what think OF tnelr
attitude in this matter.
'It is so obvious that this commit
tee is to be appointed for the purpose
of backing up the mayor, that no sane
man could question it. He Is giving
ali kinds of excuses for not enforcing
this law, among others that 1t would
drive these women into the residential
districts. This is a ruse and nothing
else. He cannot be induced to order
the police department to close even the
more Infamous of these dives.
sThere are poor families who have
their homes and are rearing children
practically under the caves OF these
dens. Nothing can induce this man to
enforce the state law for their protec-
ton, but their children must be reared
in surroundings that are unspeakably
vicious.
"The appointment of this committee
of fifty will make absolutely no change
in my attitude upon this subject, and
expect so long as I am in OFFICE, TO
continue my attempts to force these
officers to act, and I have some hopes
of accomplishing my purpose:
at am going away for a rev Gays.
rest and when l return hope to ind
a way of closing the more infamous OF
these dens without the aid OF the police
force"
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-13
SHOWERS OF RICE FALL
IN SUPERIOR COURT ROOM
Marriage of Deputy Clerk by Judge
Rives Temporarily Disturbs De-
corous Tranquility of the
Probate Division

The decorum of the probate division of
the superior court was disturbed yester-
day when showers of rice flung from all
sides of the chamber, fell upon the
heads of a young couple, scattered
about the floors and aisles and followed
the happy bride and groom into the
corridors and down the elevator.
The wedding ceremony was per-
formed by Judge Rives, the groom be-
ing Charles B. Glase, a reputy county
clerk employed In the probate division,
and the bride Miss Abbie Lee Barnett,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. M. ]. Bar
nett, ISL Commonwealth avenue. Mr..
Glase Immediately after the ceremony
abandoned the work of his office for an
extended vacation, during which the
couple win enjoy a honeymoon trip.
On their return they will reside tenn
porarily at the Barnett home.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-13
MAY DABNER CUTTER
FIGHTS FOR ESTATE
BEGINS CONTEST FOR VALU-
ABLE PROPERTY
Woman Who Obtained Divorce on
Ground of lntemperance Now
Seeks to Displace the
Administrator

What is looked upon as the prelim-
mary steps in a contest for the possess
sion of a large estate IN Washington,
d. c., began yesterday in the superior
court, when the petition for letters OF
administration of the estate of Edwin
Kendall Cutter, with the revocation OF
letters granted in September last TO
David Jacobs, came up for hearing.
The petition which was heard yester-
day was filed by Mrs. May Dabney cut
ter, who last summer was granted an
interlocutory decree of divorce from
Cutter, whom she charged with habit
ual intemperance.
While the estate in Los Angeles is
valued at only $1,000, the Washington
property is estimated to be worth near
" fifty times that sum, and Mrs. Cut
ter, it is said, believes it is the tnten-
ton of Mrs. Marion c. Chester of that
city, a sister of Cutter and in whose
behalf Jacobs was named as admins
traitor, to keep the property in her own
hands and not for the benefit of Mrs.
Cutters child, Marion, a girl of 6 years.
Judge Rives suggested that Jacobs
resign as administrator and intimated
that Mrs. Cutters request would be
granted.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-13
RECEIVER APPOINTED
IN FRED DORR CASE
No Resistance Is Offered by Brokers
Attorneys, and Local Manager
Insists That Business May
Be Resumed

An order was entered yesterday by
Judge Wellborn of the United States
district court appointing Attorney Car
roll Allen receiver for Fred Dorr, min
ing and stock broker, bonds being fixed
at $4,000.
The petition in involuntary bank
ruptcy, which preceded the appoint
ment of the receiver, was filed yester-
day morning by Harry L. Winters, who
claims to have loaned $2531.50 to Dorr;
by P. v. K. Johnson, for $2301.37 and
money had and received, and by w. E.
Ramsay, for $730S31, money had and
received, the total amount represented
in the claims of the three petitioners
being $12,136.1S.
Accompanying the petition was a
consent by Dorr that he be adjudged
bankrupt, no resistance whatever being
offered by his attorneys, Hunsaker,
Britt & Fleming.
That the bankruptcy proceedings
would not prevent Dorr from making
efforts to resume business was the
statement of the brokers' Los Angeles
manager, Maurice Vaughan, but what
effect yesterdays action would have
on DORIS plans Vaughan was not pre-
pared to say.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-13

purposes; provided further, that no
water shall be distributed or supplied
to any person or corporation other than
municipal, for resale, rental or disposal
to consumers; and provided further,
that no water shall be furnished for
use outside of the limits of the city
unless the furnishing of the same and
the terms and conditions thereof shall
first be authorized by resolution, adopt
ed by the board of water commission
ers and approved by an ordinance of
said city.
In article two officers of the NUM-
cipality are named to conform to re-
cent amendments, providing for
board of public works.
But in the new amendments the
word ward" is left out entirely. The
new amendments simply state mine
councilmen" instead Of one from each
ward. Where the old charter specifies
elections in wards the new amend
ments deal only with precincts. Where
it is provided in the old charter a
councilman must be a resident of his
ward for two years the new amend
ments simply makes 1t resident of the
city for two years. Under these
amendments all councilmen can be
councilmen-at-Iargea and ward lines are
entirely lost. This is the purpose of
the amendments
A section is added to article IA of the
charter defining the powers of the
board of public works by adding the
board shall have charge of the con-
struction of the aqueduct only as far
as the San Fernando valley where it
joins the present water supply and that
on its completion it shall turn the
aqueduct over to the water board.
In a new amendment primary nomi-
mating elections are recognized where
as they are ignored in the old charter.
In amendment five the mayor is given
power to veto contracts where the
amount is more than $500. This power
is now vested in the council alone.
In amendment six the city is COM
PEELED to pay the premium imposed on
city officials that are required to give
bonds where the bond is furnished by
surety company. AS it is now the
officials furnish bonds and pay their
own premiums.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-13
MUNICIPAL AffAIRS|RI "a ! !.

ceedings have been begun to widen this
portion of the street, and in fact all OF
Main street from Tenth to Thirty
seventh, to a 100-foot street.
1t was finally agreed the city should
pave the forty-foot strip and walt un-
til the work of widening the street is
completed, and then cooperate with
the property owners in paving the rest
of the thoroughfare. The property
owners on the street were agreed to
this compromise.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-13
WOULD ABOLISH
ALL WARD LINES
CHARTER REVISION BOARD
MAKES REPORT
coUNClLMEN TO BE ELECTED
AT LARGE
Sweeping Changes Planned When the
People Call Special Election
and Adopt Proposed
Document
CHARTER AMENDMENTS

All ward lines abolished and council
men elected at large instead of by wards.
The city be given power to sell water
and power to other municipalities.
The city given power to build wharves
on the seashore and build interurban lines
to connect the city with those wharves.
The mayor given power to veto con-
tracts of more than $500.
The city to pay premiums on bonds
furnished by city employees.
These are the most important amend
ments to the city charter contained in
petition circulated by the Municipal
League. The amendments were prepared
by a special committee consisting of John
d. Works, w. b. Mathews, Frank G.
FinIayson and James A. Anderson. These
men constitute the special committee of
the charter revision commission which
was recently appointed by concerted ac-
tion of all civic bodies.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-13
CITY HALL NOTES

Auditor Mushet was formally granted
a two weeks leave of absence yester-
day.
An ordinance prohibiting the keep
ing of more than fifty fowls in one
backyard was ordered filed by the
councH.
The council ordered $2100 paid from
the general expense fund on the steam
heating plant at the city workhouse.
An amendment was made to the
building ordinance yesterday to per-
NIT of the erection of temporary struc-
lures for public gatherings within the
fire limits This change was made to
accommodate the Church Federation,
which expects to hold a monster reVi-
val this fall, beginning November 6,
and wishes to erect a temporary struc-
ture capable Of seating 5000 persons.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-13
HELD UP AND ROBBED BY
MEN WHOM HE HAD AIDED
Montebello Rancher Declares That
Strangers Whom He Had Accom-
modated with Ride Stunned
and PIundered Him

Complaint was made yesterday to the
sheriff's office by T. Penturf, a rancher
of Montebello, that he had been Sc
verely beaten and robbed by two men
Tuesday night while driving on the
Whittier road toward his home.
The men, said Penturf, were given
permission to board his wagon, and
after riding a short distance one of
them struck him on the head, stunning
him. He was then held by one man
while the other went through his pock-
cts, taking $25. Both men escaped.
Penturf was able to come to Los An
geles this morning with his produce.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-13
MORE TROUBLE CAUSED
BY PIGTAIL DISTRICT

Because several years ago the city
accepted some abominable work on
what is known as the 'pigtail" the
must now pave Main
street, from Jefferson to Thirty-sev-
enth, at its own expense. An ordinance
to this effect was passed by the coun-
Gil yesterday. The pavement will be
asphalt, and will be forty feet wide.
Two proposals were laid before the
council yesterday. One was to pave
Main street, from Jefferson to Thirty
seventh. for its entire width, which is
sixty feet at this point, and the other
for the forty-foot strip. The forty-foot
strip was finally adopted because pro-
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-13
NEGRO MAIL CLERK ACCUSED
OF STEALING FROM LETTERS

Charged with stealing money from
registered and special delivery letters,
Berry William Skies, negro mail
clerk employed at the Los Angeles
postofice. was given hearing before
Commissioner Williams OF the federal
court and held to answer in bonds of
$4,000. -
of the postoffice here for thirteen
wears. was arrested Tuesday night by
government postoffice inspectors, who,
It is alleged, saw the negro remove S.
from a letter addressed to a religious
publication at Atlanta, Ga.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-13
Brokers Incorporate

Articles of incorporation were filed
yesterday by the Fagg-Johnson COM
pany, organized to conduct brokerage
business. The directors are G. B. Fagg
and S. A. johnson of South Pasadena
and William S. Johnson of Pasadena.
The capital stock is placed at $4,000.
VENICE, "The Safest Beach,
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-13
Accused Of Stealing Note

Justice Summerfield continued until
2 o'clock today the examination of e.
S. Maloof, charged with grand larceny
August g. 1t is claimed that Maloof
gave M. ]. Nichols a promissory note
for $248 and later distracted the note
from Nichols effects.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-13

C. f. Harris, teamster was ar
rested yesterday at Lankershim, and
charged with cruelty to animals. He
later appeared before Justice Selph and
was fined s25, which he paid.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-13

features every day. Today can't help but be a
replenished and today we will be just as well II
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-13

Mems golf shirts, in light and
dark colors and all sizes. You've
Maid soc for shirts of inferior
quality; 25c each for these, to-
daV
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1908-10-05
DICKENS FIRST
LOVE AFFAIR

r HE most recent issue of the Biblio
phile Society is volume entitled
Charles Dickens and Maria Bead
nell: Private Correspondence" 1t con
sist> of letters written by Dickens to hi,
first love, Maria Beadnell. said to be
the original of Dora of David Copper
field' and Flora OF Little DOrrit.' The
book is edited by Prof. George Pierce
Baker of Harvard. and the original let
tiers belong to W. X. Bixby of St. Louis
whose generosity in allowing the society
Use of his unpublished manuscripts has
done much to give its publications a per-
manent interest.
David COpperfed" was. as is well
known, largely autobiographical: and
Forster in his Life of Dickens" prints
a long extract from letter written to
him by Dickens i'm 1855. telling of the
intensity of his early passion. But Fors-
ter does not give the name of the young
woman, and it is not certain that he
knew it. says the reviewer of this sump-
tuOus volume i'm the Nation.
Maria Beadnell was the daughter of
John Beadnell. manager for a firm of
bankers, Smith, Payne & Smith. Dick
ems was introduced to the family by his
friend Henry KOlle. who married Anne
Beadnell in May. 1888. shortly after the
first five of the letters here printed were
written. These five letters are appar-
emily the ending of a happy intercourse
of some months.
In the first of them, dated only March
49, Dickens declares that their recent
meetings have been little more than so
many displays of heartless Indifference"
on her part, and he returns to her some
present which he says, II have always
prized, as l still do, far beyond anything
| ever possessed" The original of this
letter was returned to Dickens, and it i,
printed from a copy retained by Miss
Beadnell.-The Mirror.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1908-10-05
THE WOMAN YET TO CONE.

The woman of the future will approach
mems ideal. 1t has been true in the
past and will always be. Whether the
ideal or the woman precedes is another
question.
Some men are expecting the woman
of the future to be an idler, a toy, a
sweet nothing. Surely this is a mar
row view of her unfolding Will rude
men be content to give up the COM
panionship of the fair sex and seek en-
tertainment i'm the club alone? Will he
cease to invite her to accompany him
to the tennis court and hill top?
We think not. If he should, perhaps,
she will become content to go to such
places in the company of her sisters.
The freedom enjoyed by the present
day girl will not be given up without
struggle. She may become more prac-
teal, may acquire greater knowledge
of the care of the home but she will never
spend day after day in idleness. Such
vocation would take the glow of
health from the cheek and the cherry
from her lips. Common sense will not
permit it.
The woman of the future will have
all the good qualities she possesses
today and more. Her sphere will be en-
larged as time goes on. She will be
athletic, fond of outdoors. skilled i'm
music, cultivated in mind, a keeper of
the home and lover of virtue. She
will be everything good but with enough
faults to make her suitable associ-
ate for man,
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1908-10-05
ATHLETICS IN UNIVERSITIES.

Athletics plays an important part in
American Universities. Its never failing
popularity with both students and teach
ers generally, and its long established
career indicates that it commands a
necessary place in the University cur
riculum.
Unborn in every human being is GER
tain sportive spirit that must be satisfied
in actual well-balanced living, and the
University, to have well-balanced
course should not only permit but en-
courage athletics.
The value of athletics lies not so
much in athletics but in the spirit ere
ated. Nor is this all: A great good of
athletics lies in its power to cement
closer together institutions of learning.
Enthusiasm is aroused and a spirit of
loyalty created that is commendable to
the institution supporting athletics.
Take for instance any football game
played by the Missouri team. 1t would
be an extraordinary thing if there were
less than fifteen hundred people on the
bleachers, and these nearly all Univer-
sity people; half of the entire University
student body. In the leading game of
the year, the number of University stu
dents that would stay away, would be
too small to count on your fingers. And
if someone would say he didn't care to
attend there would be this quick protest
well. you haven't much college
spirit
Athletics add spice to the drudgery of
study. 1t is to the University what the
safety valve is to the engine 1t also
might be more finely compared to the
governor of the engine. The old saying,
"All work and no play makes Jack dull
boy has been proved true many times
over, and it might be we'll said that well |
regulated athletics help to make Jack
the bright boy.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1908-10-05
GOOD HUMOR IN POLITICS.

Ever present good humor has come to
be one of the principal assets in modern
politics. If one sees a man in hotel
lobby, on the streets, or in any other
public place, shaking hands, and laugh
ing and talking with innumerable per-
sons whom he meets, he is usually put
down as either a travelling salesman or
a politician. This same jovial humor
will do more to make favorable i'm
preston on strangers than any amount
of serious talking. A jolly man, with
real humor, carries his hearers along
with him; gets them in a happy mood,
and makes a good impression.
Mr.. Taft, the Republican nominee for
President, has been photographed often
as all presidential possibilities are, and
the majority of his photographs show
him with a smile and general express
ion of good humor. This good nature
has been spoken of and pictured nearly
as extensively as the "de-elighted" of
President Roosevelt. Mr.. Bryan, the
Democratic nominee, also is noted for
his good humor. All of his campaign
trips are characterized by good humor
and his friendliness. This trait in Mr..
Bryan has done much towards increas-
ing his popularity; though it has been
The subject for many Outlandish carica-
tures.
A happy nature helps and those who
cultivate this trait will have
\ large following of friends and ad-
nirers. Politicians have been quick to
this fact.