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Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-03
"PlCKP0CKET QUEEN"
AGAIN IN THE TOLLS
Woman Known to the Police Since
1853 Has Lost Her Cunning
and Falls an Easy
Victim

NEW YORK, August 2.-Enfeebled
by extreme age and having passed
nearly half Of the last forty-five years
in numerous penitentiaries, an aged
woman, who was greeted by court Of
ficers as MARY" was found guilty OF
petit larceny before Judge Foster in
part one Of the court Of general ses-
sions yesterday.
Compassion caused the court to
tighten the sentence imposed and in
stead of a term in state prison. year
in the penitentiary with $500 fine was
decreed. 1t was freely predicted that
the prisoner would probably never
leave her temporary home alive.
As long ago as 1863 Mary Struhan,
the name given by the prisoner yester-
day, became a leader among pick
pockets and in a short time was known
to the police throughout the entire
United States as the "Pickpocket
again and has served sentences In
many prisons. including those at Phil
adelphia, Chicago, st. Louis. Detroit
and Washington. Six months ago she
was liberia ted from San Quentin pris-
on. During her time she has been
known as Mary Harrigan, Mary Flan-
agan, Mary HAnnigan and in fact. al
most any name that happened to occur
to her, but always she stuck to Mary.
In recent years the wonderful cun-
ming of the woman began tc disap-
pear through the infirmities of old age
and when she was arrested only few
days ago she explained that her nimble-
ness of finger and lightness of touch
had gone, as her seventy -eight years
were too great handicap.
Mrs. Elizabeth Watson of IS Morn
ingside avenue was looking at shop
ping bargains when Mary desired her
swinging purse, and got it. 1t con-
tanned tWenty-one cents. But the work
was SO bungling that even the victim
knew of it, and Policemen Rein and
Becker of the central office caught her.
The sentence of Imprisonment did
not seem to worry Mary. but she in
quired petulantly where she would
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-03
STATE LEAGUE

SAN JOSE, August 2.--An error by
Shortstop Streib, which put two men
on bases, followed by Levy's single and
triple by Hopkins gave Alameda two
runs III the fifth inning. Hopkins was
a puzzle, allowing but three singles.
Score:
San Jose 1, hits 8, errors 4.
Alameda 2, hits S, errors 8.
Batteries = Stricklett and Esola;
Hopkins and Buckley. Umpire, Moore.
SANTA CRfJz. August 2.-Dolan. q
recruit, and Phil Knell were given a
drubbing by the Sand Crabs today the
final count showing nineteen runs for
Santa Cruz and a big goose egg for
San Francisco. In the ninth the locals
We're retired on a triple play. Score:
Santa Cruz 10, hits 10. errors 0.
San Francisco 0, hits 5, errors 10.
Batteries-T. Hoag and Collins; Do
Ian and Kinsky.
ALAMEDA, Aug. 2.-Fresno out
classed Oakland today. Score:
Fresno 8, hits Is, errors 2.
Oakland 0, hits Z, errors 8.
Batteries-Miller and Blankenship;
Conway and Bliss.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-03
NEWS AND NOTES OF THE DIAMOND

Anything that failed to come off out
at Thirty-eighth and Santa Fe yester-
day afternoon, during the games be-
tween the Home Councils and the
Giants and the Home Councils and the
Meeks was an oversight. In addition
to baseball games there were free-for-
all fights, small riot, rag-chewing
contests and one prominent participant
is in the hospital as a result of being
run over by his own blackboard
A small riot was started in the ninth
inning of the game between the Home
Councils and the Meeks when a de-
cision of Umpire Fernandez was dis
puted by the Councils. Fernandez
called fly ball foul and the Coun-
ellis insisted that it was fair. After a
prolonged rag-chewirg contest, in
which two umpires and deputy sher-
iff participated, 1t was adjusted b.
Fernandez standing pat
After the game the field manager
insisted that the report of the man
who took up the collection was all
wrong. The muniflcent sum of $685.
was realized. and at settlement it was
denied that this much was collected,
although the collector insisted he had
taken up that amount. Jack Doyle,
who is manager of the grounds upon
which the game was played, was called
in to settle the dispute, which he did
in his own brief. thorough and ex-
ceedingly original manner, using a
piece of rubber hose as an assistant.
Shortly after the last game was
played a free-for-all fight was started
in the sTeet, in which a deputy sheriff
lost his gun. A few minutes later one
of the boys who attended the game fell
out of his blackboard at Thirty-eighth
and Alameda and was run over by his
vehicle and was taken to the hospital.
And yet they say this is dead town.
The Home Councils lost both games
played yesterday, the Giants winning
the first game by the score of to 0
and the Meeks winning the second
game by the score Of to 4. Bilande
famed eight Giants, while Bud Clark,
the opposing twirler, aired a Dozen
The double umpire system was tried
for portion of the Home Councils
Giants game and was voted a success
The score of Home Councils Meeks
game:
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-03
INSTANTANEOUS eAMEs

Following are the amateur games
played in the miscellaneous ranks yes
terday:
At Fiesta park-Hoosiers 1S, Wells
ShillingFargo IL.
Shilling; Wells-Fargos, Smith and
Eichsteadt.
At San Gabriel-San Gabriel Z, hits
0, errors 4.
RacycIes 6, hits 6, errors 4.
Acknowledgements, Clark and Nc
Coy; San Gabriel. Lacuna and Rance.
t Garvanza-Pastimes 10, Tigers 1.
Batteries--Pastimes, Kincanamon and
Abbott; Tigers, Cerk and Francisco.
Pastimes want game for next Sun
day morning with Wells-Fargos. Tele-
phone Pearson, South 4542.
At Thirty-eighth and Alameda--An-
gelus Laundry 7, Sanitary Laundry 4.
At Also and Dickman-McCormic
6, hits 1, errors 6.
Belvideres 10. hits 13, errors ii.
Batteries-McCormic Whelan and
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-03

Hyde; Belvideres, Prayer and Boyar.
Features of the game were the nu-
merous errors on both sides.
At Prayer park-Belmont IL, Uni
versity Juniors 10.
Batteries-Belmont, Dick and Rem
shaw; University, Kolb and Gray.
George Ely of the Salt Lake team,
who played on the Meeks team yester-
day, was painfully injured by being hit
on the cheek with a batted ball, which
compelled him to retire for few min
utes, afterward re-entering the game
at second base.
Bud Clark of the Los Angeles Giants
nine will go TO Salt Lake, where he will
play with crack aggregation Of that
city.
The Maple Leaf club defeated the
Pioneer team on the Joy diamond yes
terday afternoon by the score of IA to
6. All of 700 fans saw the game.
Pitcher Clark was to the good yes
terday on the South Side Athletic dia-
mond, tanning seven Council batters,
got two hits and brought home two
runs. Cowan got a two-bagger with
the bases full and scored three runs in
the ninth inning.
In the afternoon John Ely and so
ciety' Bill were at the Home Council
Meeks game and enjoyed themselves by
talking over boyhood days.
The Hynes ball team defeated the
Euclid Stars at Hynes yesterday by
the score of to 2. Batteries: Hynes,
Thomas, Preston and Bingham; Euclid
Stars. Hanson and Reese. The Hynes
team desires to hear from the L. A. A.
G. for August 8.
Capt. Walter Sears of the Salt Lake
club returned Saturday from Salt Lake,
where he has been on his annual vaca-
ton. He is several pounds heavier.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-03
GILMORE REFUSES TO
FIGHT ADMISSION DAY
Says Papke-KeteheiI Labor Day Scrap
viii Dim McFarland-W Welsh Re-
turn Match and Declines 1t
with Thanks
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 2.-Harry
Gilmore tonight announced that Packy
Mcfarland will not fight Fred Welsh,
the English lightweight, before the
Jeffries club at Los Angeles on Sep
tember 9. The match had been all ar
ranged with the exception of the post
ing of forfeits. When Jeffries decided to
have Ketchel and Papke meet before
the same club on September Gilmore
objected. He feels that a Ketchel-
Papke match so close to his date would
hurt the fight in which he is interested.
This much has been understood by
local fans ever since the Ketchell-
Papke match was made. When the
club decided to put on the bigger at
traction for Labor day it was a cinch
that the lightweight return scrap
would be called off or postponed until
later.
But Gilmore need blame no one but
Gilmore, Mcfarland, Welsh & Co. Had
they not chased off to Frisco after a
lot of pugilistic will-o'-th -wisps and
refused to sign articles and post their
forfeits until they found out that they
could not do any better up north, nor
half SO well. they would have cinched
the Labor day card for themselves.
Instead, Mcfarland and Welsh hit it
for Frisco on the run as soon as they
could get into their clothes after the
fight and began to hobnob with the
northern promoters for matches, leav-
ing the Jeffries club in the hole not
only for the Labor day card but for
the middle -of-August card.
Then, when they found they were not
so badly needed up north, they came
back to Los Angeles. and each is go
ing on in lesser bouts. Now they are
up against the proposition of taking
q later date or none at all, and public
interest in the return match assured
ly has been allowed to wane until its
drawing power is materially reduced.
They have sent a lot of good money
after counterfeit stun, and in addition
have lost great opportunity for pick
ing up some lovely shekels. Fighters
will learn some day to tote fair with
promoters.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-03
WRESTLING BOUT ENDS
IN 3-ROUND DRAW
Jack Hogan and Jack Lee Secure One
Fall Each, and Neither Is Down in
Last Session, Referee Refus-
ing Decision to Either

Jack Hogan and Jack Lee wrestled
three rounds to a draw yesterday aft
ernoon at the Chutes, each securing a
fall and failing to get a down in the
deciding round. Lee put Hogan down
in the first round in ten minutes and
twenty-five seconds and Hogan turned
the tables on him in the second round
in nine minutes. They wrestled to the
limit in the third round, neither getting
a down, and Referee Van der Priem
called it a draw.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-03
ATHLETICS
SOUTHERN STATE LEAGUE

The Pico Heights ball team defeated
the Dolgeville nine on the Dolgeville
field yesterday by the score of to 4.
while the Thistles lost to the Gardenas.
A to 8, and the Neidmours won from
the Rivera niue by the one-sided score
of 10 to 1. Following are the tabu-
lated scores:
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-03
CALIFORNIA LEAGUE

The Hoegees defeated the Athletics
on the Athletic diamond yesterday aft
ernoon by the score OF to 2, while
the Edisons walloped the Chutes nine
on the Chutes diamond by the same
score. Both games went twelve in
Following are the tabulated scores:
EnTSnNs
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-03

Two-b hit-Allen. Struck out-By
Briswalter H. Walters 6, Mcknight 5. Baces
on balls-Off Briswalter 8, Walters l, Nc
Knight s. Stolen bases-Briswalter Lucero
2, Gress. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-03
At Home

church--Hs seems perfectly at home on the
platform.
Ciotham-What is he--a motorman. conductor
or a spellbinder ?-Yonkers Statesman.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-03
SUMMARY

Home run--Hasgins. Two-base hits-Nord-
ouist. FLYNN. Struck out-By Cinnamond q,
Ahhott 10 Bases on bails-On Cinnamond
a. Hit by pitched ball-Maddy. Sacrifice
hit-C Simms. Umpire-Diago.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-03
AutomobIIe-Llke

Patience-Have you seen the new hat called
the automobile?
Patrice-No; is it anything like an automo-
bile7
i'somethlng; you can't tell whether it's COM
ing or going. "-Yonkers Statesman.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-03
SUMMARY

Home run-Pina. Three-base hit-Pina.
struck out--By Pima 10. Crandall g. Feat
ures of game we're three men on bases ana
Pima makes home run.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-03

On account of tie in the Indepen-
dent league a post-season series of
three games will be played off to settle
the championship of that league be-
tween the Home Council and Pendo
teams. This agreement was made by
the managers of the league clubs at
one of the early meetings OF the direc-
tors.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-03
DOLGEVILLE
Totals ...............s4
SUMMARY

Two-base hits-Carr, j. Dear. Struck out
BY DAILY g. Lincoln 2, Rhulan g. Bases on
balls-Off Daley q Lincoln 3, Rhulan 2.
Sacrifice hits. Couts Reeve, Moore. Um-
pire--L. Duffy.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-03

II AWRENCE g. FERNANDEZ is
one of the youngest umpires in
A1 amateur league ranks and knows
the game from A to 2. He is of the
kind that will not stand any back
talk from the players on the diamond.
Fernandez is a native of San Fran
cisco and is well liked by the amateur
ball players of the south. There is a
that either the Pacific or the
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-03
SUMMARY

Two-base hits-L. Smith, Cowan. Struck
out-By Clark s, Bilande g. Bases on balls
of Clark 2, Bilande g. Umpire-Fer-
nandes.
The Florence-Graham team walloped
the Weiland nine on the Thirty eighth
and Santa Fe diamond by the score
of to 2. The Lukes and the Pendo
nine did not play, the game going by
default to the Pendo club.
CALIFORNIA IEAGlIE
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-03

Daniel Run of Frisco made his best ten
pin score and the weeks high tenpin game
1885,
W. Holly won close thirteen-g game ccn-
test from C. Bsing at Unions. as follows:
Holly--101. ia. 112. 101, t2s, SO, 49, no.
1877 los, 120, 1O5, 139-13s8.
Rising---11o, 10i, 100, 11e, 100, 81, 100, %,
1o9, io4. III. 81, 114-1sss
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-03

During the past week the following high
scores were rolled on Morley's Broadway
alleys:
Tenpins-R. Newhard 203: A. Ashman
221. 205: J. A. Jevne 2O7; r. Rosenberg
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-03

The following high scores were rolled on
past week:
Tenpins--J. Bowron Goa; q. Hutchins 2o7,
2o2, 21oi ]. q. Hopper 200, 2O1; E. Liebert
200, 200; X. Kippling 234; S. Stratton 1872;
2o4; A. e. Stone 2O4: B. Gwynn zoo; J.
Noyacovich 215: E. Webster 2O1: ]. Johns
20S; o. Edwards a22: 7, Tormat ZIG. 211;
G. Henry 200, 2O7, 200, 204, 251; Daniel
Run 2s5; Emil Boldemann 2S6; Mrs. L. A.
e. Stone 225.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-03

A. Werner had the weeks high jimjon
score, 142.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-03

Mrs L. Stone ran the best ladies' tenpin
score In many months on the Spring street
alleys, a perfect game, totaling her 225.
In four handed high average contest OF
seven games ]. e. Hopper won with 1s7 1t.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-03

In the Ladies' Idle Hour Bowling club
weeks contest Mrs. b. Stegeman had the
high game 1e6.
In an impromptu hve-game contest be-
tween two commercial travellers OF 'Frisco
d. Run wins three out of Ave games. has
high score, but loses totals to c. Bolde-
mann follows:
Boideman .....1s7 1872 151 2s6 15o--S5S
Ruff ....s........1 .140 265 l6l l3T 1lS-oZI
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-03

H. Jevne & Co.'S office take another series
from the clerks by S53 pins on totals and
hve out of six games ]. A. Jevne had
high game and average
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-03
Totals ...........4S
cHUTEs
SUMMARY

Totals ...'...,...ss , 8 ss
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colors.
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Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1908-09-16
Getting Out Of Tight Place.

when the late William Window
secretary of the treasury, dropped
dead at chamber of commerce din.
ner in New York some years ago. lust
as he was speaking, there were but
TWO reporters present, says the Sat.
urday Evening Post. The others had
written their stories, sent down their
copy and the text Of the speeches. and
gone to more interesting places. In
one newspaper Office the news did not
get in until a minute before time for
going TO press Two columns of Win.
dom's speech were In type in the form.
AS 1t was too late to make over and
catch the mails, an enterprising ed
itor wrote: The Hon. William Win.
dom dropped dead at the chamber OF
commerce dinner last night. III he
had not dropped dead he would have
spoken as follows" Thus II stood un-
I'll they could make over.
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Mr.. Funny-Lookine.

together correctly. To make him. ret
piece Of cardboard 1Ox7 inches.
Fasten the outer edges together with
muc'lage Then make two holes in
The sides wherein TO stick two card
board arm1. with hands on the ends.
These arms and hands are first drawn
on the cardboard and then cut cut.
Now draw IL coInical face on the cylin.
drical part and cover the bottom OF
the cardboard cylinder with a round
piece OF muslin gluing it. on securely.
Drop a big marble or small ball into
The inside and place the funny mani
kin on n slightly sIanting table. The
marble rolling about will make "Mr
Funny.LOoking' a ridiculous object
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Parental Companionship.

very pleasant sight and a hopeful
sign, too. is where a father and son
are friends. Neither can have a bet.
ter one, IL he is a real one. nor more
enjoyable one IL they understand one
another, which is easy to do. There
is more health, outlook. joy and profit
In that sort OF companionship than
they can form in the busy walks OF
life.
Neither the authority OF the father
nor the respect OF the son need be sac.
rificed to sustain this relation. These
blend together. when they occupy the
middle ground of friendship, and be.
come kindness and courtesy. But the
practical effect of such companion.
ship, IL contained by the father with
kindly common sense, Is a real edu
cation for the boy, for it directs his
life toward affairs that have worth
and meaning to them. This does not
mean that there is to be no folly OF
fun, but that it Is not all to be folly
and fun; that there are 10 be times
OF reflection. taking account OF things
and figuring out the real value of
eVents.-Ohio State Journal.
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ON
TITLED
FOREIGNERS
BY GEO. v. HosARr. t-AueH M.Hucn.-,

Dear Bunch: Your letter from Ven
Ice is at hand. and we are glad, indeed.
- hear from you.
l hope you won't fall In the canal
while In Venice. No doubt your early
education on the Erie will be of great
nelp TO you-get ap!
l notice from your letter that you've
oeen hob-nobbing with nobility over
there-careless Bunch.
we got EN- over here, Bunch. by
the gross, SO you haven't anything
on us.
1 went in to the Waldorf to meet
Uncle Peter one evening last week.
and 1 found him entertaining a Ger
man nobleman-the Count Cheese Won
Cheese.
The count is travelling In this coun-
try incognito.
II 1t were my country he couldn't
travel in cage.
I'm wise to those guys with the
Horsonzola title all wrapped up in It's
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DUE TO a MOTHERS GRIEF.
Row the Blanche Ferry Sweet Pc.
Was Brought n Perfection.

There Ia an interesting story told
oy Paul Kirk In q recent issue OF the
housekeeper. concerning the acciden-
TAI discovery OF the Blanche Ferry
sweet pea. The story is this:
The daughter OF a farmer In JefYer
son county. ". Y. married a quarry.
man who neglected her. forcing her
10 live starved and miserable exjs
tence In a small home over some lime
stone lodges.
After a while the woman became a
mother, and then death came and
Claimed the child. The mother took
the body back to her own childhood
home-one Of the most beautiful In
New York-for BURIAL
When the funeral was over. the
mother. stricken with grief. gathered
from the old farm place a few seeds
OF the old Painted Lady sweet pea
These seeds she carried away with
aer to the poor little home by the
stone quarry. There she planted
them.
They Powered. and the mother
saved some Of the seed for another
seasons planting. From year to year.
In this manner. the flowers were per
petuated and the memory OF the child
was kept beautiful. After Is or 90
years the flowers had undergone a
change-had taken on a new beauty,
as fine as the sorrowing mothers de-
votion. They no longer resembled the
old Painted Lady blossoms. The thin
poor soil. with its large element OF
lime. had dwarfed the vine. but in
compensation had given more album
dant flowers. larger and brighter col.
ored.
Mr.. Tracy, OF the government de-
Partment of agriculture, while looking
after some seed crops in the vicinity.
saw and admired the flowers, learned
their history, secured some OF the
seed, and later sent them out to tho
world as the Blanche Ferry sweet
pea.
Out OF the sorrow and hardship Of
the lonely mother by the Quarryside
mad come about the development of a
Hover OF exquisite beauty, which has
since brought pleasure to millions and
added beauty To countless homes.
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Cauuht the Dean

One Of Dean swift's friends sent
him fish by lad. The boy burst
into the room. exclaiming very unpo-
Htely:
MY master sends you a fish"
That Is not the way a gentleman
shouId enter" reproved the dean. lyon
SIT mere in my chair while / show You
how to mend your manners"
"hen the boy was seated the dean
went out. Then the dean Knocked at
the door bowed low and SAID:
Sir, my master sends his kind com.
piiments, and hopes you are well and
begs you to accept a small present"
Indeed" replied the bov "refurn
him my best thanks, and here is a
shilling for yourself"
Tie dean. caught in bis own tran
IauShed heartily and gaze the how a
hali-crown for his ready W.T..
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sneeze Cause for Divorce.

Mrs. John Buckles Of Denver is az
ter a divorce because her husband
sneezes. 1t makes her nervous and
the baby nervous, and even the neigh
bors get fidgety and talk when John
wakes up in the middle OF the nisbt
with rousing old "Ho-rashshoot"
That's the way Mrs. Buckles described
1t to the attorney she applied to. John
uses SNUFF and when he awakened be
would take a pinch Of SNUFF and then
lie in bed, hump his back and bora
shoe 80 times or more. Il would
shake the bed and knock all the co GERS
of and the baby would set up yell. and
Mrs. Buckles just got distracted The
attorney told her that perhaps Jonp
could not help 1t, but the lady in.
sisted she wouldn't live with the bora
shoe mar She went off declaring she
would thyNk up some more bad habits
OF johnny Y sneezing wasn's fit cause
for acknowledgements journal
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Conundrums.

Why is 1t almost certain that Shake
speare was a broker? Ans. Because
no other man has furnished SO many
stock quotations.
Why Is professional thief very
comfortable? Ans. Because he us,,.
ally takes things easy.
Why Is young man growing his
first mustache like a goose? Ans. Be.
cause he grows down.
why Is hen immortal? Ans. BE.
cause her con never sets.
When is a man Obliged to keep his
word? Ans. When nobody will take Il.
What is the longest sentence known
In history? Ans. The life sentence.
Why was the elephant late I'm enter.
Ing the ark? Ans Because he STONED
to pack his trunk.
When Is piece of beef like a new
dress? Ans When getting basted.