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Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-06-12
DRAINAGE COMMISSION is
RECIPIENT OF PROTESTS
Sacramento River. Land Owners Object
StrenuousIy to Tax Levied on
Them, Which Is De.
cIared Unjust

SACRAMENTO, June ia meeting
of the State Drainage commission was
held in this city today, when numer-
Gus protests were received against the
tax which has been levied for the ex-
pense of the commission.
If the law creating the commission
which passed four years ago is de-
clared unconstitutional and the as
sessments are knocked out. a contin-
gency will arise which is worrying the
commission.
The bill passed carried no appropria-
ton, but the state loaned the commits
sion $25, 900 on the understanding II
should be paid by levying assessments
The commission has spent not only
the $4,000, nut $4,000 more, and the
problem now is to raise the money
from the land owners in the reclama-
ton districts along the Sacramento
river that will be benefited by i'm
provements to be undertaken by the
national government and the state,
each of which will provide $400, 10000 for
the purpose.
Attorneys representing river land
owners declare the assessments are not
Just. The matter will be discussed
again on June II, when various county
assessors, VINO made the assessments,
will be called to testify.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-06-12
PETITION FOR LIFE
OF GAS PIPE THUG
PETALUMA PEOPLE ASK GOV.
ERN0R'S MERCY
Constable Circulates Appeal to Stay
Execution, Set for July 81, of
Louis Dabner, Accused of
Brutal Murders
By Associated Press.

By Associated Press.
PETALUMA, Cal, June 11.-A petit
tion addressed to Gov. Gillett asking
him to commute to life Imprisonment
the death sentence of Louis Dabner,
who with John Siemsen, his companion
in crime. is to hang July oI, is being
circulated in this city, the home of
Dabner.
Constable George Brush is circulating
the petition and has secured the sigma
lures of many of the most prominent
citizens who think Dabners sentence
should be committed owing to his
youth and who believe he was but a
tool in the hands of Siemsen, an older
and more experienced offender.
Dabner and Siemsen are known as the
"gas pipe murderers" because of the
use of a piece of gas pipe as a weapon
in a series of brutal murders and sem
sational robberies committed by them
In San Francisco in August and Sep
tember, 1906. They were convicted OF
the murder Of NJ. Munakata, president
of the Japanese bank on O'Farrell
street, which they robbed of $500.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-06-12
HILL MISSES CONVENTION
FIRST TIME IN 80 YEARS
New York Politician Leaves for
Europe--WiI Not Attend DEM
ocratic Meet in Denver.
Has Retired

NEW YORK. June 11,-David b. Hill
will start for Europe this afternoon on
the White Star steamer Baltic. 1t will
be his first trip across the Atlantic and
he has been planning for some time.
The departure at the beginning of a
national campaign leaves no doubt in
the minds of those who felt that he
might go back into political harness
that he has finally retired from all
political activity.
The Denver convention on July Z Will
be the first national convention of his
party in more than thirty years that
he has not attended, either as a dele
gate or d potent leader.
He has set 10 time limit on himself.
He will visit the principal cities of Eng
land and the continent and win stay
all summer if he likes it.
For the first time in many years he
declined last night to see newspaper
men. He sent his secretary downstairs
TO tell the reporters that re hoped to
have a pleasant trip and expected no
''red fire." either at the pier when he
started or at home when he returned.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-06-12
HARMONY PREVAILS AMONG
DEMOCRATS OF KENTUCKY
Six Delegates at Large to Be In
strueted for Bryan - Former
Governor Beckam Doesn't
Bolt When Defeated

LEXINGTON, KY, June 1.-THE
Democrats of Kentucky met in state
convention this afternoon.
Harmony prevailed all along the line,
an agreement having been reached
whereby Bryan will be instructed for
as Kentucky's choice for president Six
delegates at large, each with two
thirds vote, will be chosen.
After an all-night conference it was
agreed by the leaders that the six dele
gates from the state at large shall be
j. c. w. Beckham, James b. McCreary,
Ollie NJ. James, w. b. Haldeman,
Thomas II. Haynter and John c. c.
Mayo. 1t was further agreed that
Henry r. Prewitt will be chairman of
the state central and executive COM
mittees. Beckham's withdrawal from
the race for temporary chairman SIM
plified matters.
At the afternoon session a temporary
orsaniza ton was effected by the cleo
ton of Representative Owsley Stanley
of the Second district as temporary
chairman by reclamation.
After the committees were appointed
harmony speeches were made by former
Governor Beckham and Senator Nc
Creary.
Perhaps the most noisy and en-
thusiastic demonstration was for for
mer Governor BeclSham, and the one
personal thrust was when Backham, re-
ferring to the report in morning
paper that he had been defeated, said
he and his friends could never be Sc
badly beaten that they would bolt the
party nominees, and that no brides
were necessary to secure his party
loyalty.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-06-12
POLICE INVESTIGATE
DASTARDLY ATTEMPT
CLEVELAND CAR DYNAMITERS
BEING TRAILED
Seven Passengers Injured and Escape
Death by Mlracle-Explosion Is
Heard Mile-WindoWs Are
Shattered by Blast
By Associated Press.

By Associated Press.
CLEVELAND, Ohio. June 1.-THE
police of Euclid Heights. the suburb in
which a municipal traction car was
blown up by dynamite at an early
hour this morning, were bending every
effort today to run down the mis-
creants who placed the explosive on
the street car tracks.
Seven passengers were injured, none
fatally, as result of the explosion.
The car was running slowly when the
front wheels struck the explosive.
The explosion that followed was
heard for over a mile Windows were
shattered and seats twisted.
The floor of the car was lifted up
ward, throwing the passengers in a
panic stricken heap on the floor.
Only the slow speed of the car saved
it from going over the steep embank-
ment of the road. The explosion lifted
it clear within a foot of the curb.
The explosive tore off the flanges
of the wheels and the motor fell be-
tween the rails. Two sticks of dy-
Mantle were found on the rails where
they had been placed with the inten-
ton OF blowing up cars bound in the
opposite direction.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-06-12
RUSSIA COURTS
DOVE OF PEACE
TOXIC AMBASSADOR INDICATES
NEW POLICY
FRIENDSHIP OF JAPAN NOW WILL
BE SOUGHT
Maievltch, Foreign Diplomat, Declares
instructions Are to Develop Neigh
borly elations-Administr
ton Is Pleased
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
WASHINGTON, June 11.-Admin-
istration officials unofficially have been
made acquainted with the essential
features of an important interview re-
Gently had by the representatives or
Moscow newspaper with Mr.. Malevsky
Malevitch, recently appointed Russian
ambassador to Toxic, which touches
upon Russia's policy in the far east.
The views expressed by the ambas-
sador it is said, meet with the hearty
approval of the Russian foreign Of
flee.
The tenor of NJ. Malevitch's observa-
lions are pleasing also to the admin
istration and to the diplomatic corps
here, as it indicates desire and inten-
ton upon the part of the Russian gov
eminent to develop the peaceful rela-
lions established with Japan.
The Russian ambassador took the
view that at the conclusion of the
treaty of peace, the fisheries conven-
tion and the political agreement, all
entered into by Russia and Japan dur
ing the past year, the peaceful aims of
the policy of Russia with regard to
Japan have been definitely established.
Then he continued:
MY instructions are very definite. I
am called upon to uphold and develop
the peaceful neighborly relations which
we have at last succeeded in
re-estabishing with Japan. My task
will, therefore. be to bring about a
series of agreements on questions of
international and private law, which
have become necessary in view of the
fact that consular jurisdiction on Jap
anese territory has ceased to exist and
in order to meet the growing require
ments of our industries and our trade.
"Of these future agreements, some
are provided for by the treaty of COM
merce itself, while others have been
outlined in my negotiations with Mr..
Motono, the Japanese ambassador at
st. Petersburg"
Gets Strange Reproach
The ambassador said he was accused
of being too pro-Japanese, a strange
reproach, he thought. to be addressed
to a Russian. Yet, though remaining
a Russian. he said he could not deny
that Japan always had interested him
keenly. and he was unable to withhold
from that friendly nation his esteem
and appreciation of such qualities as
had been and are constantly mani
tested by its people.
Reference was made to the Amur
railroad, which recently has been ap-
proved by the duma and now awaits
action by the council of the empire.
1T is solely an enterprise for further
ing the interests of civilization and
progress" the ambassador said. Then
he added:
"It is strange to qualify as a ven
turesome policy a scheme having for
its object the linking together of the
center of a country with it's own out
1UiI1cr nOSqassfOpc hU means Of rail
road built on its own territory, The
Amur provinces were sorely grieved
when the Siberian line turned sudden
ly to the side and left to lie idle
country full of natural wealth and pos
sibilities."
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-06-12
GARMENTS FOUND IN
DUNCANSON'S SHACK
CURRENT RUM0RS BID FAIR TO
BE CONFIRMED
Discovery of Fine SIlken RaIment
Lends Color to Reports of Visits
Paid by Mysterious
Women


Special 10 Ths Herald,
SAN BERNARDINO, June 11.-Tfu-
name Officer w. H. Baldwin and wit
nesses whom he took along today
visited the Duncanson home In the
sandhills, nine miles southeast of
Chino, where, it is charged, scenes of
gross cruelty have been enacted. Some
rather startling discoveries were made.
The second house. to which reference
has been made, is a shack In the hills,
about three-fourths of mile from the
hovel in which the family was resid-
ing. In this second mysterious house
was found a fully equipped laboratory
and roll top desk filled with papers.
There Is also in the place a trunk filled
with the finest of silk wear for women,
garments of a character that Mrs. Dun
canson is believed never to have
known. Whose these garments are is
mystery the officers are seeking to
unravel There are vague stories of
women who have been seen to visit
the place but never to return.
Close by the house is an old well
filled with water. A casual examina-
ton today revealed several dead fowls
and animals. The officers will make
complete excavation of this well, for
it is believed that 1t may solve things
that have been limited at in the rumors
that are current.
New statements were taken today
separately from the Frye girl and Phil
lippi boy as to the infant body that was
found. The boy says he plowed the
body up and the girl also testities to
seeing it, Duncanson being with her
at the time.
Humane Officer James McAney of
PASADENA will visit the Duncanson
place and confer with the San Ber-
nardino officers.
The investigation of the methods EN-
ployed in securing the children by
Duncanson is being followed up and
threatens to result in criminal charges.
DR.. Duncanson, who Is a.. Socialist.
has been seeking aid from local So
cialist leaders, but has been unsuc-
cessful, as the latter seem to have
turned against him and say IL one
tenth which has been said against him
is true they will see that he is prose-
cuted to the limit
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-06-12
ALL TENNESSEE
SURE FOR TAFT
ri DISTRICTS GIVE HIM 49
VOTES AT LEAST
NATIONAL COMMITTEE PUTS IN
QUIET BUT BUSY DAY
South Carolina Contests In First and
Fifth Also Go to Secretary OF
War - OIiver-Hale Fac
tons Immaterlsl

will be presented by representatives OF
the American Federation of Labor and
the National Association of Manufac-
turers. L
1t already has been announced that
a conference of labor leaders is 10 DC
held for the purpose of demanding tha'
platform contain plank declaring
against-or at least greatly modifying
the use of the injunction in labor dis
putes.
Attacks Union Position
James w. Van Cleave of st. Louis
president of the National Association
of Manufacturers, today anticipated
the labor conference by issuing a for
NAL statement in which he bitterly at
tackled the position which the union
labor men are expected to assume.
He declares anything approaching an
advocacy of class legislation should be
avoided by the Republican party and
asserted that the union labor leaders
who have been mentioned in connec-
ton with the coming conference (and
he named Samuel Gompers in particu-
lar) are members of the Democratic
party and should not be recognized by
the Chicago convention.
LET them take their doctrine to
Denver" he said In his statement.
I0eA VIII liol Shppoib NiN .
ticket, no matter who may be NOM
mated"
Another statement issued during the
day emanated from Congressman w. b.
Mckinley, manager of the Cannon
campaign, who was moved TO speech by
the results of the contests before the
national committee. He advocated
anew the reappointment of delegates
TO national conventions along the lines
of the suggestion made by the allies
several days ago. His statement said;
MckinIey's Statement
1.-THE practice of permitting a score
Of men in each of the states to run the
PARTY simply to control southern
patronage is wrong. The apparent de-
Termination of the national committee
10 seat nearly 200 delegates from states
which furnish no electoral vote for the
Republican party, and which even re-
fuse to put up candidates for congress
where conditions seem to make their
election possible, brings the neces-
sity of restricting the representation
of the south to the front as never be-
fore"
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-06-12
STUDENTS GIVE EXHIBITION
AT COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS

The seventh annual students exhibit
ton and reception of the college of fine
arts, u. S. c., took place yesterday
afternoon and evening in the Fine Arts
building at Garvanza.
The color work was shown in the
main gallery, the students exhibiting
work in oils and water colors being
Arion Putnam, Mrs. Alfred w. Ander-
son and Misses Susan Hagerman, Clar-
Ice Shoemaker, Evangeline Wolfgram.
Mildred May Harrison, Hildah Soren-
son, Katheryn Sorenson, Edith Cary,
Mamie Lee, Birdie Kirk, Vivian String
field, Katherine McManaman.
Those showing work In black and
white were Misses Vesta II. Smith.
Georgia Nieman. Helen M. Ward. Eme-
lie johnson, Frida Wirz. Martha Sch
mier, Hilda Kaltmeyer. Emma Bridges.
Margaret Clouds, Edna Chess, Bessie
M. Edwards. Fern Gordon.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-06-12

'San Pedro today wants to join with
| Los Angeles. l believe 80 per cent OF
the voters would say so, provided San
Pedro could come in under some ar
rangement by which it could conduct
its own local affairs, leaving the harbor
management to the larger city.
1--WE want to collect and distribute
our tax levies and disburse the local
moneys, something on the order of the
borough system In the east.
Los Angeles really wants the harbor
proposition and it should have the
management of that
City Engineer +. S. Whitman here
showed by maps that there is much
harbor frontage available for San
Pedro. What strips she did give away
it appears were given largely in the
Palos Verdes rancho days before the
city was incorporated, when the rail-
roads gained control of the ocean
| frontage.
Captain Fries Enthuses
Capt. Amos A. Fries praised the plan
of organization and asked the body not
| to forget that not only were wharves
necessary but land behind the wharves,
where lumber yards and other trans
shipment business could be transacted
Oscar Mueller, who served on the
| former consolidation commission, asked
| the body to omit using the words
Greater Los Angeles" as he said they
| were misunderstood by the smaller
communities and indicated too much
aggrandizement on the part of the
larger city.
T. e. Gibbon said the harbor ques-
| ton was so large that it should not
be handled by single communities, but
rather by all as a whole.
Pananna's Significance
he
sal advantages which the Panama
canal would bring to Los Angeles.
| He said fast steamers would bring
| freight from the Atlantic side as speed
| lily as trains now deposit their loads
| at the coast. Every vessel from the
| Orient inevitably will come within a
steaming radius of seventy miles OF
Los Angeles on it's way to the canal.
with a few hours diversion these
| big steamers can stop at San Pedro to
| get fresh supplies and to land passen-
| gers for brief visits to the semi-tropic
| land, and this one item affords mag
nificent trade possibilities"
| The speaker said he did not believe
that a municipal railway would most
satisfactorily solve the rate question.
| He believed that what France had
done would solve the problem here, in
| the use of trains of auto vehicles car
| rying freight directly from the ships al
San Pedro to the warehouses or doors
of the stores in Los Angeles. Auto
transportation was cheaper than steam
railway service.
DR.. John r. Haynes, Judge Dillon
and Capt. Eugene Merrick, formerly
of Chicago, expressed thoughts on the
greatness of Southern California, after
which the meeting authorized Mayor
| Harper to name a committee of five,
or seven, to formulate plan or busi-
| ness. This committee will name the
time of the next meeting.
| Mayor Harper expects to name the
committee today, so that it can hold q
session with him possibly late today
| The mayor asked that permanent
chairman be named at the next meet
| ing.
The San Pedro visitors were John T
Gaffey, F. s. Whitman, Capt. Louis
Hansen, Robert Lux, Nels Anderson
James l.. Griffin and A. Andrews.
I
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-06-12
TEN DETACHMENTS
TRY A DARING FEAT
5000 SOLDIERS MARCH IN ODD
EXPERIMENT
General Grant Believes Men viii Meet
at Given Point from Various
Outposts Not Over Three
Hours Apart
BY A associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
NEW YORK, June 11.-Unless some
thing goes wrong in the calculations OF
Gen. Frederick d. Grant between now
and next Saturday noon the 5000 SOL
diers of the regular army under his
command who are marching from all
points of the compass toward the viii
lage of Deferiats, Jefferson county, N.
Y, will perform a military feat I'M
paralleled in the history of the Ameri-
can army.
When Gen. Grant announced he in
tended to march ten detachments of
men from points hundreds of miles
apart and have them meet at conf
mon center within three hours of one
another military men of experience
were inclined to say 1t could not be
done.
After looking over the Geographic re-
ports from the commanding officers of
the ten detachments, Gen. Grant stated
he fully expected to have all his troops
arrive at the big camp at Pine Plains
within one hour of the time set, which
is next Saturday noon.
The effort to reduce the marching
troops to a scientific basis is only one
of the interesting features of the an
nual maneuvers of the department OF
the east, which are to be held at Pine
Plains. a 12-mile square tract of land
IN Jefferson county. More than 10000
soldiers, regulars and militia, will par
ticipate.
One important Problem
One of the important problems which
the war department will try to work
out will be the availability of the auto
mobile for military purposes.
To this end three officers started
early this morning from the Governors
Island ferry to make the run to Pine
Plains in an automobile, and the same
car with possibly others. will be used
throughout the maneuVers in every pos
sible way that military eXigencies may
require, thus undergoing a thorough
test both under camp and campaign
conditions.
Lieut.. Col. Edwin f. Glenn, Twenty
third infantry; Capt. William Il. john
son and Maj. Charles G. Woodruff, who
will be the chief sanitary officer of the
camp, are making the automobile trip.
They expect to reach Albany tonight
and tomorrow at daybreak to start on
the 170-mile trip from the state capital
to the camp at Pine Plains, arriving
there tomorrow night.
Gen. Grant left for the camp tonight.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-06-12
HOT BOX CAUSE OF FIRE
DOING 100000 DAMAGE
Spectacular Confisgratlon In Indiana
Destroys 100000 Bushels Of Corn.
Many Cars Destroyed by
Swift Flames

CHICAGO, June lin a spectacu'
lar fire which destroyed the great grain
elevator of the Tri-State Grain COM
pany at Hammond Ind, last night
250, 900 bushels of corn were DESTROYED
and property valued at 100000, includ-
ing the corn, was burned.
The fire was caused by hot box or
a small wheel on grain belt, which
was being used to hoist grain into the
elevator. Before the fire could be con-
trolled telegraph and telephone wires
along the Chicago Junction tracks and
more than a score of freight cars were
destroyed.
The elevator was owned by Richard
Fitzgerald, president of the Chicago
Junction railway.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-06-12
OFFER $4,000 FOR ARREST
OF FlEND; MAY LYNCH HIM

BELLINGHAM. Wash, June IL
The man arrested yesterday at the
boundary line Con suspicion that he
knew something of the murder of Mrs.
Mary Morrison. was released last
night. He proved an alibi.
The reward for the capture of the
iiend has been increased to $4,000 and
scene of the crime are being searched
by posses anxious to take the man.
There is little doubt that If he is
caught there will be a lynching.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-06-12
Senator Hawkins Dead

NEW YORK, June 11.-Former Sem
ator Hawkins, so years old, of James,
port, l.. l., is dead after an illness of
about three months. Mr.. Hawkins en-
joyed the unique distinction of de-
feating his brother for senator of the
state. He was nominated on the Dem
ocratic ticket against Simon S. Haw-
kins, the then incumbent. The broth
ers, who lived within a stones throw
of each other, made very exciting
race, Edward winning out.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-06-12
FIVE KILLED IN WRECK
AT JOURNAL, BELGIUM

JOURNAL, Belgium, June 11.-There
was a railroad wreck near here today,
in which five persons We're killed and
several others injured. A passenger
train from Mona ran off the track and
several cars We're demolished.
The wreckage Immediately caught
fire and was consumed. 1t was with
mucn difficulty that the wounded were
removed from the wreckage before the
flames reached them.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-06-12
STATE BANK CLEARlNGS
SHOW A BIG INCREASE

SAN FRANCISCO, June 1.-THE to-
tai bank clearances in the eight prin-
cinal California cities for the week end
ing at noon today was s45,S55, 1886, an
increase of $3,0OOO0O over last week.
san Francisco, $51, 720, Asa; Los Angeles,
s., 644. 632; Oakland, 81 ,479,S29; San Jose,
S452, O97; Sacramento, $S36,61S; San
Diego, $S1O,295; Stockton, $46S,S72; Fres-
no, $442,700.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-06-12
RAYMOND HITCHCOCK IS
OUT UNDER $500 BAIL

NEW YORK, June 11.--Raymond
Hitchcock, the comedian who was ac-
quilted early today by the jury which
for several days has been hearing evil
dence on charges preferred by several
young girls and who was remanded to
the Tombs prison under other indict-
ments on similar charges, was released
from the Tombs this afternoon under
$1,000 bail.
No definite decision as to what
course will be taken with reference to
reached.