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Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-28
NOTED RUSSIAN AND WIFE
IN RETREAT AT RED0ND0
Countess Has Travelled Alaska Extern
siveIy, Her Writings on the coun-
try Being Well Known in
Current Literature

REDONDO BEACH, Dec. 27.-Count-
ess Morajeski, formerly Alice Rollins
Crane, a newspaper and magazine
writer, is living the simple life in Re
dondo Beach with her husband, Count
Victor Morajeski.
The count and countess are still suf
fering from the effects of last years
panic, and are living in retirement in
q small cottage, the interior of which
gathered during her travels as
writer through the Klondike district
and Siberia. Each of the interesting
curios has its own fascinating story.
Although the count was left a large
estate in Russia on the death of his
father, the rebellious spirit in that part
of the country makes it dangerous for
him to return at this time, and he is
daily earning his bread as machinist
for the Pacific Motor and Automobile
company, putting in his spare moments
working on an original invention of
his own.
Meantime the titled couple are living
incog, the countess going by the name
of Madame Morajeski, and the count
using his real name, minus the intro
duction.
The interesting adventures of Count
ess Morajeski, who, as Alice Rollins
Crane, visited the Klondike during the
gold excitement nave DeeH puDllSlSu
in numerous volumes and produced in
the leading magazines and papers of
the country. In 1898 she was employed
by the government in the bureau of
ethnology to study the Indians of the
great northwest, particularly those of
Alaska
1t was during her travels in Russia
that she met the count, and later on
royal wedding took place. The bridal
trip brought them to America, where
the count became heavily interested in
mining.
The countess related to the writer
many of her most interesting expe-
riences, including the killing of a giant
walrus on the coast of Kings island,
near the Siberian shores. At the con-
clusion of the narrative she proudly
displayed the skull and tusks, which
were of enormous size.
The countess is employing her time
preparing the "Blue Book of Los An
geles city and Country Schools" The
book has the Endorsement of the coun-
| ty board of education, and viii Include
a history Of the schools from the per
iod of the franciscan Fathers to the
! present time.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-28
FIVE VESSELS MAKE
PORT OF SAN PEDRO
FOUR ARE HEAVILY LADEN
WITH LUMBER
Two Steamships and One Schooner
Discharge caraoes and Passen-
gers and Clear for
Other Ports

SAN PEDRO, Dec. 27.-The new
steamer Majestic, Captain Andreasen,
owned by Ira j. Harmon of San Fran
cisco, arrived here this morning on
her maiden trip. She is out three and
one-half days from Eureka. She
brought 100000 feet Of lumber for b.
K. Wood, the Southern California and
the National Lumber companies.
Steamer Tiverton, Captain johnson,
arrived this morning from Tacoma, via
san Francisco, and discharged a part
of a cargo of lumber for the San Pedro
Lumber company, and then cleared for
the Port of Los Angeles, where 475,OOO
feet will be discharged.
The big steamer Falcon, Captain
Skage, arrived from Everett, carrying
/, SOC, 900 feet of lumber for the CONSOLE
dated Lumber company.
The schooner Caroline, Captain Wes-
terdahl, has completed the discharge OF
100000 feet of lumber for Kerckhoff
Gunner Mill and Lumber company, and
is scheduled to sail tomorrow in bal
last for Umpqua River to reload.
The Pacific Coast company's steam
ship, State of California, Captain
Cousins, arrived this morning from San
Diego. After taking freight and pas
sengers, she cleared for San Francisco,
via Redondo and Santa Barbara.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-28
sAwrELLE BREvlTlEs

SAWTELLE, Dec. 27.-The Christmas
season in Sawtelle has been the liveliest
one in the history of the town. The
postoffice has handled more mail, espe-
cially in the way of merchandise, than
ever before The Wells-Fargo Express
company makes a similar report
Christmas eve the Sunday school Of
the Baptist church gave a pleasant en-
tertainment to the pupils and friends of
the school. The program consisted of
songs, recitatiOns, etc, rounded up, of
course, with that Indispensable adjunct
of a Sunday school entertainment of
this kind, a Christmas tree, whose
burden of gifts made many a little
heart happy.
P. j. Flynn, favorably known to many
Sawtelle and Los Angeles people, will
open a restaurant in his building next
Thursday. He will have a grand OPEN
ing and masquerade ball New Years
eve.
This evening Rev. DR.. Benedict con-
Quoted the Christmas communion SER
vice at st. Johns Episcopal mission IN
the Mason hall on North Fourth street.
r. F. McClelland has returned from
New York. He contemplates taking a
trip to Alaska soon and will take with
him a number of practical mechanics.
j. A. Powers preached Saturday and
Sunday in the Seventh Day Adventist
church. Subject, Does California Need
a Sunday Rest Law?"
The installation ceremonies of Vet
eran lodge, A. f. and A. NJ, took place
Thursday NIGHT.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-28
MOVING PICTURE GIVES
CLEW TO LOST BROTHER
Relative GETS Trace of Missing Man
by Seeing Him Pictured in SHOW
as a Commissary In
Paris

NEW YORK. Dec. 27.-Through the
medium of a moving picture show X.
I. Mailer, a Bulgarian civil and mining
engineer. recently learned the residence
of his Younger brother, with whom Tor
three years he had been unable to COM
municate.
Mr. Mailer one day two months ago
went into a theater where moving pic
lures were being displayed. Inc PIC
ture man threw upon the serene a de-
scription of the next set, "A balloon
race in Paris, conducted by the Aero
club of France"
He gazed at the lifelike scene pre-
sentine the members of the club assist
ing in getting ready for an ascension.
Suddenly among the members he no.
ticed one of the figures. He rubbed MS
eyes and looked hard. But the figure
hurried off the scene, only to reappear;
Mailer gasped and stood erect, and
was shouted at by the audience, VINO
admonished him to 'Sit DOWN. But
he disobeyed the command. On the
contrary he rushed to the manager and
begged that the scene be again project
ed upon the screen, explaining that ne
was confident he had recognized one
of the commissaries wearing badge
upon his arm as his youngest protner,
Mano Mailer, of whom he had lost
track for three years.
The manager IOlu Illu LHe~S ~ NS"l
ironossible to repeat the picture at that
time. and regretted that the series was
to be changed on the following day.
He advised Mr.. Mailer to communicate
with the company owning the picture
film. who would undoubtedly afford
him an opportunity of examining the
photographs
Mr.. Mailer followed the manager !
advice, and next day was informed that
the pictures were to be exhibited that
night in a moving picture theater In
Houston street. He went to the place
and besought the manager to permit
him to have the picture stopped when
the figure Mailer supposed was that OF
his brother should be reached.
Then Mailer recognized his brother
The face was turned toward MIN IN
such a manner as to permit of no mis-
take. He had only to communicate
with the officials of the club to obtain
his address.
Correspondence followed, and within
few days mutual friends have as
sured Mr.. Mailer that his brother Is
alive, prosperous and happy. He is al
present absent from Paris, but upon mis-
return will be put in possession of his
brothers New York address, $50 Broad
way.
Mano Mailer came into notice In 1908
naldo, who stirred Europe with pre-
tended unknown tongue which he
claimed to speak to the exclusion OF
any other. a fraud. After Rinaldo had
nonplussed the savants of Paris and
all Europe, Mano Mailer tested his Ian
guage and found that it was a mixture
OF French and Slavonic dislects, and sc
COMPOUNDED the fraud that he con-
fessed.
Soon after this episode Mano Mailer
went upon his travels. Always devoted
to aeronautics, he returned to Paris
and engaged in business at Is Rue Lee
gendre,
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-28
MONROVIA
SURPRISING DEVELOPMENTS
EXPECTED IN BANK ROBBERY
Detectives Work on CleW Secured
Just After Theft of $4,000
Was Learned by Insti-
tuition
436 w. Palm st.
Phone: Home. Black 1877.

MONROVIA, Dec. 27.-No arrests
have as yet been made in connection
with the bank robbery which occurred
two weeks ago yesterday. Pinkerton
detectives are, however, hard at work
on a elew obtained shortly after the
robbery was committed, and it is ex-
pected by the bank officials that before
long they will be in a position to prose-
cute 1t is rumored that surprising de-
velopments may be expected.
MonroVia Briefs
Mrs. w. A. Walker, who has been
visiting for the past few months In
Kansas, has recently returned.
The town team defeated the high
school team in baseball yesterday after
noon by the score of to 6.
Rev. Clark H. Marsh was the guest
of honor this week at a theater party
rendered him by the teachers of the
public school, He will leave next month
for Japan.
Edward S. Jernegan, who has been
visiting his mother, Mrs e. d. Jernegan
of this city, returns this evening for
Rhyolite.
Miss Edith Morgan of Duarte gave a
delightful dance last evening at her
residence.
Miss Shobe of Duarte entertained en-
ioyably this week at whist. Covers
were laid for nine.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-28
PECCARY WAS WHAT
BIG PYTHON PINED FOR

NEW YORK, Dec. 27.-After fourteen
months of puzzling and worrying the
Bronx ZOO folks have at last found
something that tickles the palate of
their regal python Salome, the finest
snake of it's kind in captivity. The big
reptile yesterday partook of its first
voluntary meal since 1t came to New
York, and last night it was coiled up in
the cage, the picture of sleepy content
ment.
Saiorne is 20 feet and 10 inches long
and weighs 200 pounds. When it came
here, fourteen months ago, it was ac-
companied by wicked reputation as a
man eater, a reputation which the zoo
people considered amply confirmed
when its snakeship in due time dis
gorged a bone which upon examination
was found to be the shinbone of a hu-
man being.
The zoo folks had long since resigned
themselves to the situation, when on
Thursday one of the peccaries became
seriously disabled. A peccary, fOrsooth
is a sort of pig, very sleek and fat. An
idea struck Ditmars. Maybe Salome
would relish peccary.
1t was with mingled feelings of hope
and doubt that the keepers laid the
dead peccary, Weighing forty-five
pounds, in the cage of the fastidious
Sa1ome Salome awoke in less thar
two minutes. 1t looked at the pig Q
moment and then began to uncoil itsell
with almost electrical rapidity. In les
time than it takes to tell it SaJome hac
swallowed peccary's head, and in z
quarter of an hour most OF the pigs
body had disappeared.
The only sign of the peccary las
night was a big lump that had Travelled
slowly along the snakes course anC
was then resting about amidships.
Curator Ditmars says that as pee
carries are too scarce in the Bronx Il
feed to pythons he will try pig as {
substitute hereafter.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-28
EDWARD WARD is BURIED
WITH MILITARY H0N0RS
Cerebral Hemorrhage Causes Death
of Young Man Who Was Stricken
While at Drill with
Comrades

PASADENA, Dec. 27.-To the tap
ping of muffled drums the body of Ed
ward Ward, age "A, who was afflicted
with cerebral hemorrhage while at
drill with his comrades of company l,
Seventh regiment, last Monday night,
and died, was borne to the Mountain
View cemetery this afternoon.
1t was a full military funeral, the
first held in Pasadena for years, and
the entire company, under the com
mand of Capt. Hutchins, followed the
body to the grave, after attending
services which were held in the chapel
attached to the undertaking establish
ment of Reynolds & Van Mugs.
Delegations from the G. A. r. and
the Woman's Relief Corps were also in
attendance. The floral offerings were
many and of unusual beauty.
A firing squad, under the command
of Lieut. A. P. Harrison, fired three
blank rounds at the grave and bugler
sounded taps as the first clods of earth
were thrown on the coffin.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-28
BRIEF ITEMS OF INTEREST
COLLECTED AT PASADENA

PASADENA. Dec. 27.-It now is
practically certain that Vaughan and
Innes Brokaw the two daughters of
Mr. and Mrs. w. e. Brokaw of 1885
Morton avenue, poisoned last week by
eating frozen tomatoes, will recover
from their illness, of which their elder
brother, Leonard, died. They are still
very sick.
Rev. f. D. Mather, pastor of the Lin
coin Avenue M. e. church, journeyed
today to Santa Paula to preach the
twenty-fifth anniversary sermon of the
Methodist Episcopal church in that
city He was pastor of the church
eighteen years ago.
One Of the most important recon-
mendations to be made in the annual
report of the chief of police. H. H.
Favour, will be for a matron. who,
while she may not spend all her time
at police headquarters, will be available
whenever needed.
The missionary society of the Pasa-
dena Presbyterian church will hold its
Christmas meeting tomorrow in the
home of Mrs. L. c. Gates of Columbia
street.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-28
CONDUCTOR JABBED
ON NOSE BY HATPIN
STREET CAR MAN FAILS TO
DODGE MERRY WIDOW"
huge Hat Blocks Crowded Convey
ance, and Efforts of Ticket
Collector to Pass Result
Badly for Him

PASADENA, Dec. 27.-oddest of an
accidents was that which happened To
Conductor Dan Sanford on Pasa-
dena-I.os Angeles Shore Line car when
left Pasadena yesterday afternoon at
Ills o'clock.
Santford's car was crowded, as most
of the ears on this line are during the
afternoon hours There were 100 1ares
registered before he finished his col
lections. and that number of people IN
a. street car makes it more than COM
fortably filled. tn.
Half way through the car a girl with
q Merry Widow hat, which was secured
to a luxuriant growth of hair by huge
hatpins, blocked the way OF the con-
ductor. He tried to dodge around IT,
and she. as she saw his attempt to pass
also lodged. 1t was a fatal move LOT
the conductor. One of the hatplns
landed right in the conductors nose,
causing a wound from which the blood
streamed forth. The point of the pm
had torn the blood vessels in the IN
terror of the nasal organ. The car was
we'll into Los Angeles before the con-
ductor succeeded in staying the flow
of blood
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-28
MYsTERIoUsLY SHOT, KEEPS
SILENT AS TO ASsAILANT

SAN BERNARDINO, Dec. 27.-Pedro
Lopez occupies a cot at the county
hospital, probably mortally wounded,
having been shot through the breast.
Much mystery surrounds the deed.
Lopez refuses to give any inkling of
how he came to be wounded, or of the
identity of the man who fired the shot.
Lopez tramped for hours among the
willows east of Cotton, through a Sec
ton which in former days was the
hiding place of horsethieves and rob-
bers. Though desperately wounded he
made no effort to secure aid. After
midnight he went to friends home,
where he swooned away.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-28
SPIRIT SUMMONS WOMAN
TO AlLlNG TWIN SISTER
Subject of Psychic Communication on
Her Arrival at New York
Finds Relative III of
Pneumonia

NEW YORK, Dec. 27.-In obedience
to psychic communication, the first
she had ever received, Miss Catherine
Bruce, a student in the University of
Michigan, came to New York yesterday
from Ann Arbor, Mich, to find her
twin sister, Mrs. Charles J. Rich of
No. 400 West 18th street. i'll with pneu-
monia. Miss Bruce said that while in
sorority house in Ann Arbor late
Monday night a voice which she
thought was that of her twin sister
had said to her:
"Come to me. 1 need you"
Disturbed by this message the young
woman Immediately sent a telegram to
her sister. The telegram was received
and opened by Mr.. Rich. His wife had
been i'll for several days. but the ply
stefan in attendance had said that the
illness was not grave.
Knowing that the examinations at the
end of the first semester in the Uni
versity of Michigan were at hand and
that any interruption in the college
work of his sister-in-law might be
prejudicial to her chances of passing
those tests, Mr.. Rich telegraphed to
"Jeannette slightly i'll. No cause for
alarm"
Mr.. Rich told his wife what he had
done and she agreed with him that it
would be unnecessary for her sister to
come east. Miss Bruce however, was
not sufficiently treasured by the tele-
gram from her brother-in-law. She
left Ann Arbor on Tuesday and, ar
irving here yesterday, went at once to
the apartment of her sister and her
brother-in-laW.
There she found that her sisters ILL
ness, although it was not real critical,
had become more serious than had been
at first supposed. She said last night:
81 have never been believer in
psychic phenomena or thought trans
ference of any sort. / have never CIV
en- the subject any attention and when
1 have been told of supposed communi-
cations and other phenomena l have
thought that most of them could be
dismissed on the ground of trickery
or coincidence.
my sister and I were always to-
gether until last September, when 1
went to the University of Michigan to
begin a three years course. 1 have
never been i'll a day in my life, but L
believe that if were to become i'll the
first person I should want to see would
be my sister. -,
"When my sister became really i'll
she thought of me. After 1 arrived
here she told me that she was thinking
intensely of me at about IL O'CLOCK
Monday night 1t was about that Tune
that 1 received the impression or what
ever you want to call it, that she was
verv i'll and wanted to see me-.
MIR. Rich. who is a woollen salesman,
said he and his wife until now had not
believed in psychical phenomena. They
could not understand Miss Bruce's re-
ception of the mysterious message, ne
added, on any ground other than that
of telepathy.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-28
Minister Submits Rudaet

ST. PETERSBURG. Dec. 27.-M. Ko-
kovsoff, the minister of finance, has
submitted to the cabinet the provisional
budget of expenditures, which amounts
to $421, 1877 900, from January to April,
inclusive, 1909. The budget has been
worked out by an interministeriaI COM
mittee over the dumas head. 1t carries
a saving of $9,00O,O00 over the credits
of 1908, to which the government is en-
titled by the constitution. This saving
will be devoted to cover extraordinary
disbursements Of the treasury. NJ Ko-
kovsoff has retained the naval and
other appropriations, against which
the duma fought strenuously through
out the session.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-28
SAN BERNARDINO
office sos Third Street.
Phones; Home s15. Sunset Main 16s.
ELECTION PROMISES
EXCITING STRUGGLE
CHARTER AMENDMENTS WILL
BE PUT TO VOTE
Hanford Faction Fighting Hard tc
Secure Passage of Change in
Board of Water Conn
missloners

SAN BERNARDINO, Dec. 27.-To-
morrow San Bernardino viii hold a
charter amendment election. There
are twenty amendments proposed to
the city charter, only two of which
may be regarded as political storm cen
ters. These are amendment and alter
nate amendment No. 10.
The Hanford faction is fighting tooth
and nail to secure the passage of
either Of these amendments, which are
calculated to reduce the board of water
commissioners to the position of clerks
to the city council, and practically
place within the control of the city
council the funds of the water depart
ment. The outlook at this time is that
all the amendments will meet defeat.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-28
PIONEER SETTLERS KEEP
THEIR GOLDEN WEDDING
Have Resided in Valley Fifty-five
Years--Were First Family to
Leave Old Fort and
Stockade

SAN BERNARDINO, Dec. 27.-Mr.
and Mrs. Edward Clyde celebrated
their golden wedding anniversary yes
terday at their Warm creek ranch,
near Highland. Fifty guests were in
vited, those present numbering chill
dren, grandchildren and greatgrand-
children.
The Clydes have resided in this val
ley fifty-five years. After their mar
riage, 80 years ago, they were the first
family to leave the fort and stockade,
which in the early days occupied what
is now the southeast corner of Third
and c streets.
They then removed to the ranch
which was the scene of yesterday s
celebration, and have resided there
ever since.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-28
France aWorId's Banker

PARIS, Dec. 27.-Although general
trade conditions in France suffered in
1908, largely because of the reduction
in American demand, figures submitted
by M. lie Roy-Beaulieu and other sta
tisticians demonstrate the imposing
strength of Frances financial position
and her right to the title of 1.-THE
worlds banker" Frances fortune is
growing steadily as the result Of an
annual saving of s1,00O,00O.000. M. lie
Roy's figures show that France now
receives 1850 100000 as an annual in
come from foreign holdings. He esti-
mates the present wealth of the French
people at 45,000,000000, or more thar
$1100 for every man, woman and child
and as the estimate is based upon de-
clared succession taxes it is admit
tedly much below the real figures.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-28
I'd Hold Joint Installation

PASADENA, Dec. 27.-Corona and
Pasadena lodges of Masons will unite
Thursday in a joint installation cere-
mony to be conducted by the officers
of the latter body. The officers OF
Pasadena lodge to be installed are:
Elmer Isaac Moody, worshipful mas
ter: Roscoe Paul Congdon, senior war
den, and Guy Stanley Bliss, Junior
warden; of Corona lodge: Percival j.
friauix, worshipful master; w. H.
Holland, senior warden and Hugh
Montgomery, junior warden Rev.
Matt S. Hughes of the First Methodist
church, Dean Arthur Chamberlain of
Throop institute and Edwin F. Hahn
will be the principal speakers of the
evening
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-28
NEW STEEL KNIFE BRIDGE AT
LONG BEACH is GIVEN TRIAL

LONG BEACH, Dec. 27.-The steel
drawbridge of the Salt Lake railroad
across the mouth of the Long Beach
harbor was given a trial lift about
o'clock this afternoon. When the
blocks underneath the rockers on the
east pier had been cut away the cleo
trical current was turned on and the
great bascule. $50 feet long, rose slow
ly into the air.
Only a partial experimental lift had
been planned and after the changes
are made, adjusting the center poise,
another lift will be tried next Tues
daV
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-28
SURPRISED BURGLAR TAKES
HEADER THROUGH WINDOW

SAN BERNARDINO, Dec. 27.-Mrs.
Harriet Sylvester of 3S1 H street had
a thrilling experience with burglar
last night He had gained an entrance
to her residence and she surprised him
piling his loot into a sack preparatory
to escaping.
Mrs. Sylvester came on him unex-
pectedly in the dining room, and the
man leaped on the dining room table
and took a header through a window
Police Sergeant Wixom was passing
and caught a glimpse of the fleeing
burglar, but the fellow escaped.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-28
ELKS DEDICATE NEW HALL
WITH GORGEOUS CEREMONY
Visiting Members Attend in Large
Numbers, and Festivities Will
Close with Grand Ball
This Evening

SAN BERNARDINO, Dec. 27,-The
ceremonies connected with the dedi-
cation of the new Elks' hall this after
noon proved most elaborate and were
carried through with success in each
detail.
Visiting Elks from abroad were pres
ent and participated in large numbers
Tomorrow the lodge will keep open
house and give the public an oppor-
tunity of viewing the interior of the
building.
In the evening the ceremonies will
come TO a climax with a grand ball,
which will be quite society affair.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-28
ALTADENA CHURCH TO BE
MOVED TO PASADENA SITE

PASADENA, Dec. .27.-The Westmin-
ster Presbyterian church of Altadena
is to be moved from its present loca-
lion at the corner of North Lake ave-
nue. and Claremont drive. to a site
within the limits of Pasadena at the
corner of North Lake avenue and
Woodbury. road, if the plans of the
committee which has had the matter
under consideration are carried out
Most of the members of the congre-
tion are strongly in favor of the change
in site which will be largely to their
advantage, bringing them, as it does,
within a fiXe-cent fare limit.