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Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-08-01
UNCLE SAM IS
GIVEN A DIG
DAVlLA CANCELS EXEQUATURS
OF C0NSULS
TWO AMERICANS AFFECTED BY
ACTION
Unpleasant Situation Arises Because
of Policy Adopted by the
President of Hon.
duras
BY Associate ted Press.

By Associated Press.
WASHINGTON, July 31.-An un-
pleasant situation has developed be-
tween the United States and Honduras
by the action of President Davila in
canceling the exequaturs of the for
eisn consuls in Honduras because of
their alleged friendliness to the revolu-
tionists. These officers include Ameri-
can Consul Lindard and Vice Consul
Reynolds and the vice consuls of
France and Norway.
The reports which have reached the
state department uphold the contention
of the consuls that they have not been
guilty of any breach of propriety that
they did not advise the surrender OF
the town when demanded by the reVo-
lutionistS but simply communicated
the command to the commandant.
The incident has caused considerable
annoyance to this government, Whlcn
ever since the revolution in Honduras
commenced has exerted it's best efforts
to prevent any breach of neutrality in
Central America which might prove
adverse to President Davila's govern
ment.
Assistant Secretary of State Bacon
had a call today from Senor Ugarte,
the Honduretn minister, who presente'.
to Mr.. Bacon some information he had
received from Foreign Minister Fiallos,
giving the Honduran side of the con-
troVersy.
Mr.. Bacon will take up the matter
again next week. He had intended to
start on an official mission to Porto
Rico tomorrow, but this and other
state department questions demanding
his attention made it necessary for him
TO delay his departure.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-08-01
HARPER IS HOME;
FACES TROUBLES
MAYOR RETURNS AND HEARS
OF FULLER CASE
MANY AWAITING APPEARANCE
OF EXECUTIVE
Secretary Kennedy First to Break
News Regarding Scandal That
involved Police COM
missioner

Mayor Harper returned to Los An
geles yesterday after an absence or
more than three weeks in the east,
but did not go to his office in the city
hall. He went directly home, where he
removed the dust of his long journey
Late in the afternoon he called up
his secretary, H. D. Kennedy, on the
telephone to learn how things had
gone in his absence and for the first
time heard of the criticism Police Com
missioner Charles H. Fuller had
brought on the administration.
Mr. Kennedy told the mayor exactly
how the case stood:
He told him that the Pioneer Truck
company, of which Fuller is president
was the owner of property in the red
light" district, rented for immoral pur-
poses. That after being exposed by the
newspapers Mr. Fuller haG said moth
ing for about ten days, refusing to be
interviewed on the matter, and then
published an affidavit, signed by one
w. Cochrane who later was said to
be Fuller's employe, that Cochrane had
leased the property month prior to
Mr.. Fuller becoming a member of the
police commission.
The mayor said the case was entirely
new to him. He left Los Angeles the
day the first story of the expose was
track of what had happened in Los
Angeles. He declared himself at g
loss to know just what to do in the
matter until he had carefully investi-
gated the facts in the case, but said il
the affidavit proved mere subterfuge
as is strongly indicated, he would bt
compelled to take some action. Unit
he is more familiar with the facts
however, he said he could say nothing
He will be in his office at 9 o'clocl
this morning, and business in th'
mayors office which has been prac
tically suspended during his absenc,
will again begin to hum.
Prosecuting Attorney Woolwine prob
ably will call the mayors attention tt
the vice which fiaunts itself in tn
tenderloin district in direct violation
of the law. Prosecutor Woolwine hope
to stir the police commission to actor
and thereby unbind the hands of tn,
police department.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-08-01
CHILDREN TO HONOR
MEMORY OF LINCOLN
One Hundredth Anniversary of Birth OF
"Honest Abe" to Be Celebrated
by Every School in the
Nation

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, Aug. Prep
arations are being made for the cele-
bration on an elaborate scale OF the
one hundredth anniversary of the blrtn
of Abraham Lincoln on February IL
1909. The exercises will be held in this
city.
The entire proceedings will be under
the general direction of the Lincoln
Centennial association.
Invitations have been issued to the
president, the members of his cabinet
and to the ambassadors, ministers ana
consuls of the foreign governments.
Among those who have already
agreed to be present, If possible, are
Ambassadors Bryce and Jessurand,
William j. Bryan and William H. TAFT.
The program in Springfield will con-
sist of formal ceremonies at the grave
during the morning, a public meeting
in the Afternoon and banquet at night.
Two features of the celebration have
been practically agreed upon and the
educational authorities of each state
will be asked tC, carry them into effect.
These are that the same program which
will be carried out In Illinois be also
observed in every school house In the
country, and that at certain hour OF
the day every school child in the land
shall stand and, while facing in the
direction of Springfield, repeat the brief
speech that Lincoln uttered as he bade
farewell to his friends and neighbors
in Springfield the day he left for WASH
ington in 1861.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-08-01
PEACE DELEGATES
GIVEN A BANQUET
Johnny BULL ENTERTAlNS AT
HOTEL CECIL
PRIME MINISTER DISCUSSES DIS
ARMAMENT
Jntimstes Strongly That Such Action,
If Ever Taken, Must Be
In the Distant
Future

By Associated Press.
LONDON, July 31.-The government
tonight rendered a banquet to the DEL
egates to the universal peace congress
at the Hotel Cecil. Lewis Harcourt.
first commissioner of works, presided
The guests included Herbert Henry
Asol1ith. the prime minister; James
Bryce. British ambassador TO the
United States; William T. Stead ana
other prominent persons.
Mr.. Asquith, in proposing TO toast
to the international peace movement;
welcomed the delegates and assured
them of the British governments sym
nathy. He said he was consoled by the
argument that colossal armaments
were the surest safeguard against war
when he was assured by great au-
thority that the annual expenditure OF
civilized nations for armaments was
somewhere near four or five hundred
million pounds sterling.
1--WE must ask ourselves" the prime
minister declared, whether we are
bound to acquiesce In the futlle latal-
ism which accepts the argument as
fact"
He was not sanguine enough to be-
lieye that the youngest among those
present would live to witness the ao-
vent of universal disarmament. Ma
| tional security always must hold nrsi
place in the plans of the government
| of any country, and while communi'
ties. like individuals. remained they
were liable to be swept with gusts
of passions, and prudent statesmen
must provide against the contingen'
cies of war.
"But admitting all that" Mr.. AS
ouith continued, "the plain fact re-
mains that there is no enterprise more
worthy of the efforts of good men to
devise practicable means not only for
minimizing the risks of international
auarrels. but for providing rational
substitute for the settlement of dis
putes by warfare. Among the various
means Of progress in this direction the
first was the growth of international
agreements. The second was the sub
stitution of international litigation for
| the barbarous methods of slaughter"
Lastly, Mr.. Asquith asserted, there
was the delicate sphere of international
relations. The main thing was that the
nations should get to know and under
stand one another. Half of their quar-
rels arose through want of such an
| understanding.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-08-01
HOT SPELL FINALLY ENDS
IN TERRIFIC THUNDERSTORM

BAKERSFIELD, July S1.-The op-
pressive heat of the past three or four
days was broken today by an electrical
storm which was felt for miles around,
and especially in the mountain districts
at four distinct points
In the San Bernardino mountains
south of here lightning struck. and
started several large fires, which are
as yet beyond control, despite the ef-
forts of a small army of men.
In the Tehachapi mountains above
Caliente a small cloudburst occurred,
but no damage was done either to rail-
road or personal property. The electric
waves interrupted the service of the
power companies throughout the after
noon.
1t was rumored in town tonight that
an earthquake had occurred in the Sun
set oil fields which stopped all the
clocks in the field, but intelligence re-
ceived at a late hour disproves the re-
port.
In Bakersfield rain fell for an hour or
more.
YsibeI Rodriguez, Mexican railroad
laborer, while overheated, drank FIVE
cups of ice water in rapid succession.
He was attacked with convulsions and
died soon after.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-08-01
LIGHTNING AND
CLOUDBURSTSDO
SERIOUS DAMAGE
THREE PERSONS SEVERELY
HURT BY SHOCKS
WATER WALL FIVE FEET HUI
ROLLS DOWN CANYON
Employees of Power House Expect to
Be Washed Away, Flood Rush.
Ing in on companys
Premises
Special to The Herald.


SAN BERNARDINO. July 31.-Three
persons severely shocked by lightning,
a heavy cloudburst in the Santa Ana
canyon and another in the Cajon pass
between Cajon and Summit stations, and
a fire from lightning near Skyland that
for a time threatened to have serious
consequences, are among the features
that have followed the oppressively hot
spell from which this district has been
suffering for several days past; spell
that became well nigh unbearable by
reason of the excessive humidity, that
finally spent itself in the heavy storm
that ragged in the mountain regions.
In the southeast section of this city
the residence of Stephen Wood was
struck by lightning. A grandchild Of
the proprietor received a severe shock,
as did also a Mexican, although the lat
ter was standing in the road consid-
erahle distance away from the house,
the entire front side of which was torn
out.
On Spruce street Mrs. v. H Inman re-
ceived heavy shock, resulting in her
side being partially paralyzed.
Just above the lower power house OF
the Pacific Light and Power company.
in the Santa Ana canyon, a cloudburst
broke and for a time it seemed as
| thoSgh the entire plant would be
washed away, the water rushing down
in a tremendous volume and flooding
the premises knee deep. For time the
employees fully expected that they would
be carried down in the swirl of the
raging stream.
In the Cajon pass the cloudburst that
broke there appears to have been even
| heavier, the report of those who wit
messed it saying that wall of water
five feet high swept down the creek.
| Several trees on the sides of the
mountains were struck and set on fire.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-08-01
MAIL POUCH ROBBERS
MOTHER VISITS JAIL
"Mysterious" Woman Talks with Son
Accused of Stealing $4,000,
but Gives No Secrets
Away

KANSAS CITY, July S1.-A mysteri-
GUS negro woman, whom ostoffice off,
cials followed from Denver to Leaven-
worth, Kas., believing that she prob
ably knew something about the $4,000
stolen in a mail pouch from the union
station here, for which Charles Savage,
a negro, Is being held, turned out to be
the mother of the man under arrest.
After trailing the woman to the Kan
sas town, the officers lost track of her
yesterday, but today she appeared at
the federal building and asked permis-
sion to see her son.
This was granted and 1t was hoped
through the conversation of Savage
and his mother some light might be
thrown upon the whereabouts of the
money.
However, in this the officers were dis
appointed, as at no time was any ref
erence to the money made by either
the woman or her son.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-08-01
JAPANESE PLUNGES KNIFE
INTO BREAST OF A BOY

SAN FRANCISCO, July s1.-Harold
Webster, a lad of 10 years, was stabbed
by a Japanese giving the name of H.
Tachiguchi last night at the corner
of Steiner and Post streets, and now
lies in serious condition at hospital.
The Japanese has been arrested and is
being held awaiting the outcome of
the act before a charge is lodged
against him.
The boy says that he was waiting for
a car and watched a crowd of boys
throwing watermelon rinds at the Jap
anese The bows ran, with the Jap
anese in pursuit, and as he passed
young Webster he plunged the knife
into his breast.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-08-01
DECLARES FIFTY THOUSAND
NEW WORKERS SMOKE OPIUM

O. WASHINGTON, July 31.-Prepara-
8 tory to his trip to China to attend &
8 the coming meeting of the interna- 9
8 tional commission which Is to make a {
q study of the investigation of the (:
q opium traffic, DIR. Hamilton w.
z. wright, one of the American commits &
q sioners, has been making an inquiry &
@ in various cities of the United states s
q and obtaining information from Of {
q feial sources as to the Importation
q and use of the drug in this country.
3 The imports of crude opium from 1908
q to 1907 were 100000 pounds more
3 than in the preceding five years
s. period.
z. seventy-five per cent of the imports {
q we're manufactured into morphine ana
q 10 to 80 per cent of that amount was {
s. illegItimately used.
3 Reports have been made regarding 8
q the use of the drug in differtnt cities. 6
t3 For instance, In New York about one {
Is third of the Cinnamon, about 600 In
a number are confirmed smokers. One (
% estimate puts it at so per cent, while 4
q a great number of Chinese smoke 1t to (
8 lesser degree.
* Figures furnished TO Dr. Wright {
q also indicate that there are probably
Z, $4,000 white persons in New York city
<1 who are opium smokers. In Phila- 6
q delphia II Is estimated there are
G about 800 Cinnamon who are con-
& frmed opium smokers. The commits
q sion meets In Shanghai the first OF
8 January next.
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Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-08-01
DECLARES CATHOLICS ARE
GAINING MANY CONVERTS

ROME, July 31.-The Rev. A. P.
Doyle, rector of the Apostolic Mission
house at Washington, d. c., has in
formed the Vatican of the progress
made by the mission in America.
The object of the mission is to con-
vert Americans to the Catholic faith,
and Father Doyle says it will not take
long to realize this project, indeed the
hope is entertained that the entire
English speaking people will be con-
yerted to Catholicism.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-08-01
NEW WORKERS SEE DEER
CHASE IN BUSY STREETS

o NEW YORK, July 31.-A deer chase 8:
q, in the downtown district gave the g
s. business center a novel entertainment {
@ today. The animal was Gagged for the 9
8 game preserves of w. $. Webb vice :
o president Of the New York Central 5:
o railroad, in the AdirOndacks.
q The crate had been placed in an ex- z
o press wagon which started up town. {
o The deer forced the top bars on Its
D temporary prison and leaped into the {:
q nadastrians To head off the game the G
a deer fled in other directions.
% A policeman and citizen who at 9
{. tempted to catch the animal were (:
o bowied over and the deer fled Tor
a several blocks until he reached the q:
q Hudson river, plunged into the river {:
q and was heading for Governors island, {:
q when the crew of tugboat lassoed {:
@ him. nnAAnnHAMH.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-08-01
CLOAK MAKERS PAID
A STARVATION WAGE
Thousands of Women, Earning 0niy
So or 81 Week, Decide 20
Go on General
Strike

ny ASSOCtdleu fTSSS.
NEW YORK, July 31.-The coat tail
ors, who are organized as the Rroth-
erhood of Tailors, have decided 10 have
no general strike this year, while tho
cloak makers, it is announced, ere pge-
pairing for their first general strike ln
fourteen years.
The cloak makers broke away some
time ago from the United Garment
Workers of America, to which the coat
tailors belong, and 60 per cent of them
are Socialists. Abraham Rosenberg,
president of the International Womens
Garment Workers union, with which
the cloak makers are affiliated, says
the strike will affect $4,000 to 10000
workers, including about 10000 women.
Last year." he said, they were get
ting S18 to $40 a week and now they
are making from ST to $8 a week. Some
of them are making far less, and the
women average SO and 81 week.
About 65 per cent of the cloak makers
are working, some on whole and some
on part time
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-08-01
FORMER STENOGRAPHER
is PREPARING TO FLY

NEW YORK, July 31.-Miss E. L..
Todd. once a stenographer in the pat
ent office at Washington, as the first
American woman airship inventor has
announced that she has invented an
aeroplane the working model of which
she hopes to exhibit at Brighton
Beach tomorrow, when Henry Farman
shows what his much larger flyer can
do.
Miss Todd says her aeroplane is per-
feet so far as present knowledge of
aeronautics in general is concerned.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-08-01
.TWENTY-THREE MEN
ENTOMBED; 20 ESCAPE
By Associated Press.

FERNIE, B. c., July 31.-A "bump"
occurred in No. 2 mine, Coal creek, this
morning about o'clock, and as a re-
suit twenty-three miners were en-
tombed.
All means of escape appeared to be
cut off and grave fears were enter
tanned for their getting out alive as
the mine filled with gas and the work
of rescue was very slow.
A large number of reseuers went to
work trying to get fresh air to them,
but some six or seven hundred feet of
dirt and coal had to be dug through
before the men could be reached. Spe-
cial trains with doctors aboard were
rushed to the scene of the disaster.
At 4. O'Clock this afternoon, when all
hope had been given up, twenty OF the
miners were rescued. Three men were
still missing.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-08-01
THREE LABOR PARTY
LEADERS ARRESTED


BY AssocIaIeu FIess'
PARIS, July S1.-As a result of his
into the disorders at
Vigneaux yesterday the public prose-
cutor issued a number of warrants late
tonight against the leaders of the revo-
lutionary labor party, three of whom
Roasouet, Yvetot and Morrheiri-were
arrested on their way to a midnight
meeting of the central committee of
the labor confederation, where the
news of the arrests aroused much in
dignation The meeting broke UP at a
late hour after another twenty-fours'
general strike had been voted for Mon
day next as an answer to 'the fresh
cries of the government"
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-08-01
GOVERNOR OF ARKANSAS
PLACED IN SANITARIUM

ST. JOSEPH, Mo, July Ex-Governor
j. S. Little of Arkansas has been placed
il a sanitarium here. He has been
suffering from a nervous breakdown
almost ever since his election, which
has developed acute melancholia.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-08-01
cIoudburst Floods streams

FLORENCE, Colo, July S1.-A cloud
burst this afternoon in the headwaters
of Oak and Coal rivers sent raging
torrent down eight little streams,
fiooding towns, washing out bridges
and doing damage estimated at 100000.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-08-01
THE NEWS SUMMARY
FORECAST

For Los Angeles and vicinity:
Cloudy Saturday, possibly light thun-
der showers; not quite no warm; light
south winds; thunderstorms in the
mountains. Maximum temperature
yesterday, 90 degrees; minimum, 81
degrees.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-08-01
LOCAL

Other California cities quick to follow good
roads example set by Los Angeles.
Old soldier beaten badly by post police officer
at Sawtelle.
Mayor Harper returns and learns OF Fuller
case,
day August 22.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-08-01
COAST

Murderers Siemsen and Dabner hanged at
San Quentin prison.
Harrimans profits in California for year end
ing March l, 1905 estimated at $4,000, oOO
Cloudburst and electrical storm IN santa
Ana canon destroy property and inJure two
persons.
chises in California.
canes. and all trace of man is lost
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-08-01

Thousands of cloak makers in New York, who
arc paid starvation wages, to go on strike
Twenty-three miners entombed alive at
Crow Nest pass, b. Z.
Rrvan improves program for notification day.
Everything to be on simple scale.
Government officials at Washington annoyed
by President Davilo's action IN canceling
foreign exequaturs
Republican leaders in New York fail in at
tempt to obtain expression from Chairman
Hitchcock regarding proposed nomination OF
Hughes for governor.
Hartman planning skyscraper in New York
Immigration officials declare organized gang
of smugglers is operating along Texas and
New Mexico border.
Reno New merchants register vigorous kick
at Washington because OF unjust freight rates
charged
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-08-01

Old age pension bill passes house of lords at
London
one thousand criminals given their liberty at
Constantinople
Three leaders of revolutionary labor party ar
rested at Paris.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-02-28
"Commoner Comments"

on our third page of this issue should
be read by everyone and is the first of
reproduction of editorials, comment
and an occasional cartoon taken from
Mr.. Bryan's Commoner, and will be a
regular weekly feature in the Plain
Dealer. AS Mr.. Bryan will undoubt-
edly be the next Democratic nominee
for president, special interest attaches
to his views and utterances, which are
continuously and maliciously misrepre-
sentsd and misquoted by his opponents.
If you are follower of Mr.. Bryan you
should read what he says and writes to
be able to contradict floating misstate-
ments concerning his views, and if you
think you disagree with him, read what
he actually writes and utters and not
content yourself with reading garbled
reports published by host lie partisan
press. Get the truth.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-02-28
Pleasantly Surprised.

One of the numerous February sur
prises was that of Mr.. and Mrs. Aug.
Walter, which took place at their farm
home in Albion twp, Wednesday even
ing, Feb. 10, 1908.
About eight O'Clock there was gen.
tie rap at the door, Mr.. Walter started
for the door but before reaching the
door, it was opened and inrushed about
hundred relatives. neighbors and
friends, that had gathered to surprise
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter before they leave
for their new home in Cresco.
They could not see for moment
what it meant, they were so shocked
but soon recovered bidding each and all
a pleasant ''good evening"
After the usal cermony of "sur-
prising" was over the evening was
pleasantly spent in social way; music
and singing. At midnight the ladies
prepared sumptuous supper from the
we'll filled baskets that were brought,
to which all did ample justice.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter were presented
money enough to purchase a daven-
port, to show the high esteem and
friendship for them.
They s-ill soon move to Cresco and
will reside in the house recently built
by them.