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Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-02-20
GASOLINE STOVE EXPLOSION
CAUSES DAMAGE TO HOME

The residence of James T. Plummer
1895 East Thirty-fifth street, was
slightly damaged by fire yesterday
morning at 1890.
Persons in the vicinity Of Plummer' s
residence were startled by the cry OF
fire, and Mrs. Plummer rushed from the
house. An alarm was sent in to engins
company No. IA at Thirty fourth and
Central avenue. one block distant, and
owing to their prompt response the fire
was confined to the kitchen. The ex-
fire.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-02-20
Officers Rout Hindus
BY Associated Press.

SAN JOSE, Feb. 19.-Upon the COM
paint of residents of Cambell. sheriff's
deputies today went to that town and
drove out fifteen Hindus who had taken
possession of a vacant cabin and were
engaged in carousing. They took the.
road in preference to going to Jail.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-02-20
JAPAN PLEDGES HERSELF
TO RESTRICT EMIGRATION
BY Associated Press.


TOXIC, Feb. 19.-The memorandum
of the Japanese government in reply to
that of the United States on the sub
ject of emigration was handed to Am
bassador O'Brien today.
It is understood that 1t agrees in its
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-02-20
pes Moines government upheId

DIES MONIES, Iowa, Feb. 19.-The
Iowa supreme court yesterday handed
down an opinion regarding the con-
stitutionality of the Des Moines plan
of municipal government by COM
mission, upholding the law in every
particular.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-02-20
WARSHLPS
DUE TODAY
AT CALLAO
EVANS COMMUNICATES WITH
PERUVIAN OFFICIALS
HOUSING CELEBRATION PLANNED
BY THE CITY
American Admiral Thanks Southern
Nation for Greeting-Armada Is
Expected In Sight of Port
This Morning


Continued from Page One)
extends there is absolutely nothing
in it,
A burst of applause followed the
declaration.
Evening star., 1908-01-19
MINERS CONVENTION
Last With John Mitchell Pre-
siding.
GATHERING OF DELEGATES
Proceedings Will Open Next Tues
day Morning.
GUESSING ABOUT ELECTION
Various Factions Claiming the
Presidency-Ballots Cast in De-
cember Still Uncounted.

INDIANAPOLIS, January 18.-The an
thracite and bituminous coal miners dele
gates to the nineteenth annual national
convention of their union began arriving
In the city this afternoon. The conven-
tion the last regular one over which
President John Mitchell will preside as
the miners nationa leader. will open
Tuesday morning.
National Vice President T. l.. Lewis.
who is one of the Ohio delegates. and T.
]. Smith, the Tennessee national board
member. were the first to arrive. Presi-
dent Mitchell, who has been at Excelsior
Springs. Mo-, for two weeks. will arrive
tomorrow or Monday morning.
National Secretary Treasurer w. B. Wllo
son. who represents the fifteenth Pennsyl-
vania district in Congress, will leave
Washington tonight and be here Monday.
Mitchell Reported Better.
BY Monday night fully 1000 delegates
will be In the city, and it is expected that
100 will be on hand when President
Mitchell calls the convention to order.
1t is understood that President Mitchell
is improved in health and that it Is his
| opening session and to deliver his annual
address in person. Bituminous operators
| of the central competitive field will be
| here January 80, when they come for
conference looking to resumption of the
| joint conference re .ations that were dis
| rupted two years ago. If an agreement
| is reached at that conference the wage
| scale conference Of miners and operators
will follow.
| The national tellers are still counting
| ballots for national officers cast by the
| local unions last December. They will not
| be ready to report before the latter part
of next week. 1t Is believed by friends
/ of W. D. Ryan of Illinois that he has
been elected national secretary-treasurer,
the anthracite district has pol1ed a large
vote. John p. White of Iowa has been
elected vice president to succeed T. l..
Lewis.
Guessing About President.
| There continues to be optimism In the
ranks of the supporters of T. L. Lewis for
| the office of president, and they believe
| that he has been elected by $4,000 ma
jority. Friends of w. B. Wilson also are
claiming his election. These forecasts are
made on the basis Of private reports re-
ceived from friends in the various dis
trictS. In the meantime the ballot count
ers are at work behind closed doors.
The annual meeting Of the miners of the
western Pennsylvania district was ad-
journed in Pittsburg today until after the
Indianapolis convention. The Pittsburg
delegates left that city for Indianapolis
this afternoon. Telegraph reports indicate
that both the miners and operators of
western Pennsylvania favor resumption
| of joint resolutions.
Evening star., 1908-01-19
GOLDEN &C.,,
Distributors.
FORAKER ANSWERS LABOR.
Replies to Questions Discussed by
Taft at Cooper Union.

MARTINS FERRY, OHIO, January 1S.-
Senator Foraker, in reply to a letter from
Llewellyn Lewis, president of the Ohio
Federation of Labor. has given his views
on the same propositions regarding court
injunctions as were recently discussed by
Secretary Taft. Senator Foraker in his
letter, made public here yesterday. says:
Your first proposition is stated as fol-
lows:
First The enactment Of a specific
law upon which an injunction or tenn
porary restraining order may issue; in
other Words defining in specific terms
the language in which such injunction or
restraining order may be had
Whether or not I could favor such
statute would depend upon its terms
and provisions; assuming that they would
be reasonable and intended only to Sc
cure the ends of justice. such legislation
might be highly beneficial, not only to en-
ployes, but also employers.
Your second proposition is stated as
follows:
Second. That no restraining order or
injunction should be issued until after no.
tice to the defendant and hearing is
held upon the petition
This should be the uniform rule, ex-
cept only in cases of threatened destruc-
tion of property or other wrong for
which there may be no adequate remedy
at law.
Your third proposition is stated as
follows:
Third. That a final hearing and de-
termination be made within five or ten
days from the making of the temporary
restraining order
Il would amend by saying that a final
hearing and determination should be at
the earliest practicable moment.
"YOur fourth DrODOSitiOn ia stated aS
follows:
Fourth. In citations for contempt for
alleged violations of restraining orders or
injunctions that 1t should be optional
with the defendants to be heard by a
court other than the one issuing the tenn
pOra-y or permanent Injunction
THE form of your proposition cor
rectly indicates that there will arise cases
where there will be no occasion for a
trial o. the charges for contempt before
court other than the one issuing the
temporary or permanent injunction.
1T may also In certain instances prove
impracticable to grant such hearing. For
these reasons I would not make a hard
and fast rule on the subject, but I would
give the right to the defendant to have
a hearing where he deems 1t essential to
the protection of his rights. before an
other court or. ii for any reason that
could not be allowed. then In such cases
a jury might be empaneled, on the re-
quest of the defendant. to pass on all es-
sential questions of fact constituting the
alleged contempt. and no punishment by
Imprisonment should be inflicted for con-
Evening star., 1908-01-19
928 LA. Ave.
NORTHWEST.
Aged Man Frozen to Death.

ORRV1LLE. Ohio, January 1S-His
limbs frozen in a night spent wedged in
wood-box into which he had faller
head first at his home here, James Tag.
gart, ninety-two years old. uncle OF Maj
Elmore Taggart of army divorce fame
died of exposure Thursday. Taggart ane
Horace Greeley were close friends, thu
Ohioan visiting the New York editor fire.
quentiy. Taggart had been wealthy, bu.
signing Of bail bonds for a score OF mer
who fled wrecked his fortune.
Evening star., 1908-01-19
PH|lADELPH|ANS PERTURBED
WORRIED OVER SUNDAY GAMES
IN NAVY YARD.
Also Because the Public Is to Be
Kept From Watching
Sports.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

| Special Dispatch to The Star.
PHILADELPHIA. January 1s-Resi
dents of South Philadelphia are indignan,
over the threatened closing, as the resul
OF Secretary Metcalfs order. of Leagu,
Island TO the public Sundays whenever
there may be foot ball, base ball or Other
| athletic events in progress for the jackies
| Members of the Business Mems Asso
citation, identified with the Southwark
Mills, which employ about four thousand
men, said:
1T is useless to expect the sailors who
are penned up in the yard to spend then
excess physical spirits in absorbing mora
| essays and biblical literature They neeo
| and demand recreation. and it is with
them a case of the tenderloin or outdoo,
sports.
Certainly the authorities at League Is.
land can be depended upon to prevent dis.
| order or anything SavOring OF the disre.
pute on the first day of the week. They
are strict disciolinarians, and it wolild
nave been well had this whole question OF
Sunday recreation at the yard been left
to their experience and good Judgment
James T.. Lennon, secretary of the asso-
citation. was equally outspoken in con.
| demnation of any possible closing of the
yard. He said:
Appeal to Be Taken.
ITO my mind it would have been much
better had the gentlemen who have raised
their individual voices to clamor against
sports on Sunday at the navy yard gone
quietly to the commandant or to the
naval authorities at Washington to OBJ
| redress 70
at League Island. Personally, l am sat
isfied that there is no good basis for the
protests that have been made, and sin
cerely hope that the compromise of clos
ing tine yard against the thousands who
once week repair to it will not be put
into effect"
The decision of Secretary Metcalf in
permitting the games. providing the public
is not admitted, will be appealed from by
b. Frank Carson, attorney for the Sab
batarians. He took the appeal to Presi-
dent Roosevelt. Failing to secure the de-
sired order from the chief executive. re-
course will be had to the federal courts on
the ground that while LeaguesIsland has
been ceded to the United States by Penn
sylvania II is subject to the laws OF the
commonwealth pending the enactment by
Congress of special laws governing the
ceded territory.
Question for Future.
Rear Admiral Pendleton, commandant
of the island. said: II have not received
any communication from the Secretary
Of the Navy on the subject yet. but I
should say that the order means that in
the future when the men are playing their
games only those persons who have passes
will be admitted. This will, of course,
apply to Sunday only.
II should be very sorry to see this con-
dition brought about, however, as l think
that the public furnish a large part Of the
pleasure the men get out Of their games.
The men would probably rather forego
their games than play them and force
the public to stay out OF the yard.
THE whole question is one for the fu-
ture however. The men are not playing
any games now and will not resume them
until the spring"
Evening star., 1908-01-19
JEFF" DAVIS TALKS.
Arkansas Senator Unburdens Him
self at Cooper Union.


NEW YORK. January 1s-At meeting
held under the auspices of the Progressive
Democratic League Thursday night, at
which resolutions pledging support to
Bryan for the presidency were adopt
ed. Senator Jeff" Davis of Arkan-
sas, unburdened himself of flood of char
acteristic vituperations and clap-trap ora
tory In the course of which he said:
This is an age of greed and graft. Men
have gone crazy in the pursuit of dollars.
You can't eat money. There will be no
pocket In your shroud. st. Peter won't
take It. Ever since this government start
ed there has been q fight. One side has
captured the government. It is inside the
breastworks: 1t has amassed all the money
money is but the means to an end, and
it opens the door to everything-the side
In the breastworks has enacted laws that
have given them unusual advantages.
Gentlemen" he shouted. IF the gov
ernment does not destroy the trusts. the
trusts will destroy the government" He
denied that Bryan had ever said he want
ed to regulate the trusts. ''No." he
shouted, Bryan wants to destroy them
dig them out. root and branch
Then leaning over toward the newspaper
reporters, the senator stamped his foot as
he yelled. land all Of you, all OF you. all
Ol you Gull Keep IIlc lIOLu uOluS my uuIy.
IF the trusts today own one thirty
fifth of the nations wealth." said Senator
Davis. "how long will 1t take them to get
the rest of 1t? When the people become
aroused. they would, he said, do as the
night riders in Kentucky. There they
were fighting the trusts with brute force. =
Senator Davis predicted the nomination
and election of Mr.. Bryan. saying:
God bless that man! In his arduous
labops of campaigning am convinced
that he has been upheld by the arm of
God and supported by His spirit. Mr.
Bryan may never be President, but he
will ever stand as a model Of right think
ing and stern endeavor for the youth of
this glorious country to profit by.
'Ir I can come here and say but one
word that will forward the cause Of the
greatest statesman that this country has
produced In the last half century. l will
be conscious of a duty divine. am not
a pessimist or an alarmist. or an an
archist or a socialist, but l want to tell
you that the old ship Of state is rapidly
Evening star., 1908-01-19

tempt in any case where the facts con-
stituting the contempt have not been es-
tablshed by a verdict by the jury.
1.-The vilest criminal is justly entitled
to this right. What is allowed to Offend
ers against the laws of the land may
well be granted to those who are charged
with only the violation of an order of a
court.
1T is difficult to respond categorically
to your several propositions without linn
itation or qualification, but I have tried
to answer you fairly and fully
Evening star., 1908-01-19

drifting on the rocks without rudder or
helm, and unless we grab her and shake
her back on her course she will go on the
rocks"
Senator Thomas D. Gore of Oklahoma.
who followed Davis, speaking of the re-
cent panic, said: Il believe the panic was
the result Of cannibalism. The big finan-
ciers wanted railway or steamship line
the little ones had. and they got 1T
Evening star., 1908-01-19


Ten Cents per Box.
Evening star., 1908-01-19

CHICAGO. January 1S.-'There shall
be inscribed upon my tomb in German
and in large golden letters. this epitaph
Here lies the sleeping beauty" This
was ore of the odd provisions in the will
Of Mrs. Alvin Schaffer, which was filed
six years oIu and died two weeks ago.
Evening star., 1908-01-19

w. A. Jones. a justice of the peace of
Thomas, w. Va, has entered a suit for
$4,000 against the Western Maryland
Railroad Company for the death of his
brother. killed at the Thomas tipple while
loading q coal car
Evening star., 1908-01-19

50rn1e foods have the same
fleet ON the bowels as Cascarets.
ut one must select the foods and that's
ifficut. It's easier to take Cascarets,
Here is way to keep cheerful:
Live outdoors and exercise in plenty. Eat food
much fruit, many green vegetables.
Here is the other way
Take Cascaret when you need it. That will supply in
gentle natural way, the laxative on the
bowels
Nobody tina first is best.
So owouldt t best fo the 10 all
But tmoo Of to choosea asecnd bes way.
AM hal way Il
Laxative nearly prpn wolda on the bowels
ETday onands ats of al
b now done by scaresg gently
is take it. q box Il
Cascaets by a n
with o
Ten Cents per Box
Evening star., 1908-01-19

days oil salts. Of pills and cathas
What they arhcially, done by Cascarets gently.
The right way Cascare when need it. Garry
ard OF those feelings before
Alaska sentinel., 1908-03-05
St. George and the Dragon.

Other nations besides England have fought under the banner of St. George and other knightly orders as well al that of the Garter have been instituted In his honor. He was the guardian saint of Sicily, Aragon, Valencia Genoa, Malto and Barcelona; Vene tian order of St. George was created In 1900. a Spanish In 1917, an Austrian in 147O, a Genoese in 14T2 and Ro man in l492. More modern orders bearing his name are those of Bavaria
 1729), Russia G767) and Hanover (lS39). The device of St. George slay. ing the dragon forms part of the arms of the czar and appears on several Russian coins. The conjecture that this was owing to the presentation of the Garter by Elizabeth to Ivan Vassi. lievitch has no foundation in fact, for Chanceler, the first outspoken English. man to visit Russia, speaks of dis, patch sent In 1854 from Ivan Vassllie- witch to Queen Mary. the seal of which was much like the broad seal of En. gland, having on the one side the i'm. age of a man on horseback In complete harness fighting with dragon."-Lon. Ion Chronicle.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-03-05

Liberia has lately lost nominal con- trol of part of the territory over which the congress of the black republic was supposed to exercise sovereignty. A new treaty with France has been nego- hated, delImitlng the boundaries of the republics country to the advantage of France. The French insist that In view of the ignorance of the natives in the interior of the existence of any in- dependent government on the coast, 1t Is not encroachment on an independent power for the French to push their boundaries seaward. As Liberia Is an Independent power, the protection of It's territory Is matter for Its govern ment, and not for outsiders American friends of the country may regret that the experiment of sitting up negro re public has not been more successful, but they must face the facts.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-03-05
ENGLISH SPORT IS WORK.
Not Much Play About Hunting in
 Scotland, Says . Boston Man.

SCotihhuB oostoh 1hahs
 ''rhe Americans who think that En- glish sport is play made easy have something to learn" said John Mason Little, who returned to Boston this morning on the Saxonia after months shooting in Scotland Il know that the notion prevails over here that the En- gllsh go In for their sport in a spirit of enjoyment while We are supposed to make hard work of 1t That is pretty dream. AS matter of fact, the En- glishman turns his sport into the hard est kind of work. It may not be pro fessionalism, but their golf and their hunting are undertaken in dead earn est"
 Since early in September, when b. went to Scotland for a vacation from business, MT. Little, accompanied by Mrs. Little and his two daughters, has been in the Scottish highlands at Beau, fort castle, the country seat of Lord Lovatt, which had been leased for tho shooting season by Mir. Little's son-in- law, Charles W. ogden of New York. says Boston Transcript
 ''The Englishman who Is stalkipA deer in the highlands may think he Is having an easy time because be has never been used to anything else, but shooting in the Maine woods Is holi- day compared to the scramble up hill and down after those Scottish deer. In the course of a days stalking you are fairly sure to cover fifteen or twenty miles, while even If you go out for grouse, the tramp from cover to cover will take you ten miles before you know 1t"
 The economic condition of Scotch lands Mir. Little found especially inter- esting to a stranger. Practically the whole of rural Scotland" he said, "is leased, at all events, during the hunt ing season. The hunting lands are so valuable that there Is hardly a laird of them who can afford not to rent his estate for the shooting"
 MT. Little said that the most forcible illustration of the difference between the old country and this was furnished by a servant in the castle which he was occupying. He spoke to maid to tell her that his telephone bell was not in order. She seemed not to comprehend. He repeated that his telephone bell was not ringing, and asked: Do you un- derstandT
 "Ah'm takin' noatice, sir" said the girl, "and Ah'll write the manager al. rectly about it!"
Alaska sentinel., 1908-03-05
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New naphtha springs and large naphtha lake have been discovered about eight miles from Nabllskaya Bay, In the Russian portion of the Isl- md of Saghallen.
 A diamond drill bore hole 8,70O feet deep was put down In Upper Silesla in 1900. Another deep hole was put down on the Rand. South Africa, In 1905, the depth being 6,304 feet.
 Autogenuous welding Is successfully applied by Robert Hopfeldt. a German electrician, to the soldering of aluml- mum wires, a direct union of aluminium with aluminium being readily obtained
 Bricks made of sand and lime and hardened In the air are used largely In districts where there Is no clay from which clay brick can be made, but where an abundance of sand can be found.
 learned by the flight of "Nulli Secun- dus' to London that its use will be abandoned and that a new ship with considerable alterations, based on the experience of the flight, will be imme- diately put in hand.
 According to J. Dybowski, a progress sive desiccation of the air and soil Is manifest In the region of the Sudan, the underlying cause being the destruc- ton of the original forests. Cape Verde is cited as an example. In the eigh- teenth century the botanIst Adanson, described 1t as covered with vast for est, whence Its name. Now the forests are gone, the rivers are diminished, sheets of water have disappeared, and the productiveness of the soil Is fall ing, until in many places the region has become almost sterile. The natives began the destruction of the forests ig- norantly; white men continue 1t for im- mediate selfish ends.
 At recent meeting of the French Academy of Sciences the apparatus of i Dr. Fortin for rendering visible the h. ner structure of the human eye was de- l scribed A very brilliant mirror Is illu- minated with a Cooper Hewitt tube, and the light Is reflected into the eye, after traversing two thicknesses of blue glass and being concentrated by large lens fixed In screen. The observer places his eye behind the lens at such a distance that the whole field appears uniformly illuminated. What he sees Is a reflection of the interior of his own eye. The circulation of the blood in the minute vessels Is visible. When a screen pierced with pinhole Is pass ed rapidly to and fro between the eye and the lens, the structure of the fovea, the minute spot on the retina which Is the most sensitive part of the eye. Is revealed. The apparatus is designed to aid Investigations by oculists.