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Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-16
JOHN W. KERN GIVEN
SPLENDID RECEPTION
Democratic Vice Presidential candi.
date Greeted by Five Thousand
Persons When He Reaches
indianapolis

by Associated ffesS
INDIANAPOLIS, July 15.-The re-
ception given John w. Kern, the newly
nominated Democratic vice presiden-
tial candidate, held in the court house
yard at $3.50 o'clock tonight, was as
hearty and generous and spontaneous
as the citizens of Indianapolis, regard
less of politics, could make it. Fully
5000 people gave Mr. Kern a hearty
welcome and cheered him enthusiast
tically.
The candidate addressed the crowd
for about tw9nty minutes, after being
presented by Vice President Fairbanks.
Four years ago Mr.. Kern presented
Mr.. Fairbanks to big non-partisan
gathering under similar circumstances.
Mr. Kern arrived in the city little
after o'clock tonight and was escort
ed to his home by a large procession.
Two hours later he went to the court
house with Vice President Fairbanks.
When the two distinguished men
alighted they were greeted by round
after round of cheers.
Mayor Bookwalter with few brief
remarks presented Vice President Fair
banks, who spoke about ten minutes,
paying a fine tribute to his friend and
neighbor, John w. Kern.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-16
ARGENTINE ANTS PITCH
TENTS IN EAST OAKLAND
Destructive Pests Cover Area a Mile
Square and the Matter Has Been
Reported to Governor
GiIlett

SAN FRANCISCO, July 15.-Over a
portion of East Oakland about mile
square Argentine ants, pest destruc-
tive to vegetable life and not without
danger to human beings, has been dis
covered within the last few days and
the department of entomology, Univer-
sity of California, which has made an
investigation, is so much alarmed over
the appearance of the insects in this
section that it has reported the matter
directly to Governor Gillett.
The scientists state that this partic-
ular pest is practically unknown in
North America except in the Missis-
sippi valley about New Orleans. Eff
forts to destroy the ants in that sec
ton have been without avail and whole
districts have been stripped of their
crops as a result.
Figured on the basis of increase
noted in Louisiana it is estimated the
South American pest will make its
presence felt throughout the entire
state in ten years time.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-16
RAILROADS LOSE
IN TEST CASE
CANNOT TRADE PASSES FOR
ADVERTISING
JUDGE KoHLSAAT RENDERS THE
DECISION
Jurist Holds That Unless Hepburn
Law Is Enforced Business Would
Become One of Barter
and Sale
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
CHICAGO, July 15.-If it be Lawful
to make the exchange of railroad
transportation for advertising then it
would be lawful to do the same in
every transaction and the railroad bus
mess might lawfully become one of bar
ter and sale limited only by the de-
mand."
In a decision handed down today by
Judge c. c. Kohlsaat in the United
States circuit court, from which the
above is quoted. the jurist entoined the
issuance of transportation by the Chi
cago, Indianapolis & Louisville Railway
company to the publishers of Munsey' $
Magazine in exchange for advertising.
The decision was rendered in test
case in which the federal authorities
brought suit to prevent the carrying
out of contract entered into in jan
uary, 1907, between the railroad COM
pany and Frank A. Munsey & Co, pro-
viding for the issuance of trip tickets
for mileage to the value of $500 in con-
sideration of certain advertising space
in the publication of the magazine COM
pany.
The contract was alleged to be vio-
lation Of the Hepburn law. The petit
ton charges that the action of the rail-
way company in issuing such trans
portation constitutes a violation of
prohibition against the acceptance of
any compensation for transportation,
greater or less or different" from that
named in the published rates.
The railroad company insisted that it
received a full money value based on
schedule rates for the mileage or
tickets issued and denied that it was
committing a violation of the law.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-16
TOLSTOI SCORES
THE GOVERNMENT
RUSSIAN AUTHOR PENS Sc
WE'RE INDICTMENT
SAYS HE CAN NO LONGER EN-
DURE SLAUGHTER
Gruesome In Detail, Wholesale Exe-
cutions of RevoIutlonists Are
Described with Vivid
Literary skill
BY Associated Press.

By Associated Press.
LONDON, July 15.-The Daily Chron-
icle today prints three close columns of
the most passionate and severe indict-
ment ever penned by Count Leo Tolls
tot, the Russian author, in which ne
shows all his old vivid literary skill, oil
the present system of government by
execution" in Russia, the article con-
Guiding with a noble appeal to the bet
ter nature of his countrymen.
During the course of the article the
count writes:
st can no longer endure it. L write
this either that these inhuman deeds
may be stopped or that my connection
with them may be snapped and l be
put in prison Were / may be clearly
conscious that these horrors are not
committed on my own behalf, or still
better $50 good that l dare not even
dream of such happiness), that they
may put on me and those twenty or
twelve peasants a shroud and a cap
and may push me also off bench so
that by my own Weight l may tighten
the well-soaped moose around my old
throat"
After describing wholesale executions
in gruesome detail, Count Tolstoi says:
"All this is carefully arranged and
planned by the learned and enlightened
people of the upper class. They ar
range to do these things secretly at
daybreak and they SO subdivide the re-
sponsibility for these iniquities among
those who commit them that each may
disclaim responsibility; and not these
dreadful things alone are done, but all
sorts of other tortures and violence are
perpetrated in the prisons, fortresses
and convict establishments; not i'm
pulsively, under the sway of feelings
silencing reason as happens in fights
or in war, but on the contrary at the
demand of reason and calculations ST.
lencing feeling. What is most dreadful
in the whole matter of this inhuman
violence and killing, beside the direct
evil to victims, is that 1t brings a yet
more enormous evil on the whole peo-
pie by spreading depravity among
every class of Russians
Tolstoi, instancing the shocking
spread of greed among officials to OBJ
tain money by executing condemned
prisoners, says:
lawful as are the deeds themselves,
the moral and spiritual unseen evil they
produce is incomparably more ter
rible."
With regard to the governments
contentious that there is no other way
to suppress the revolutionists, Count
Tolstoi, while admitting that the revo-
lutionists' crimes are stupid and rep
rehensible in the highest degree, ac-
cuses the government of doing the
same thing for the same motive, and
adds:
"AlI the revolutionists' bombing and
murders do not come anywhere near
the criminality and stupidity of the
deeds the government commits"
Tolstoi urges at length that both
revolutionists and the Russian gov
eminent are pursuing the same objects
by the same criminal means and that
if there is any difference, it is in favor
of the revolutionists.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-16
HUSBAND AND WIFE ARE
REWED AFTER SO YEARS
Parents of Five Children Appear at
the New York City Hall and
Apply for License
to Marry

NEW YORK, July 15.-Frank M.
Siers and his wife appeared yes
terday at the marriage license
bureau in the city hall and re-
ouested Clerk Scully to fill out a license
for them. For a moment it was poser
for Cupids accredited agent, who could
not understand why an elderly couple
should require one of his documents.
Its our wedding anniversary" said
Mr.. Siers. I'VE have been happily
married for just thirty-six years. but
have decided to have the ceremony
repeated"
Mr.. Siers then explained that the
clergyman who married them had
failed to make record of the marriage
before his death, which occurred soon
after the ceremony. The family thought
1t advisable to have the marriage re-
corded, but without second wedding
this could not be done. Mr.. and Mrs.
Siers live at 537 East Eighty-seventh
street, and have five children living,
one of whom has been married nearly
two years.
1--WE were married thirty-six years
ago at Lewistown. Pa. at the Meth
odist church there by John W. Thrush.
our minister" said the happy BRIDE
groom.
"Six years after that we left Lewis
town and came to New York. Several
years ago when, on the death of a
relative in Lewistown, l visited there
/ found that the marriage had not been
recorded. Before that time I had al
ways intended to have certified copy
made of the record. But then 1 found
that no such entry existed. realized
that second MARRIAGE was expedient.
1t was put off from time to time for
one reason or another.
Our anniversary seemed an appro-
pirate date for 1t, and so I asked my
wife to go downtown with me.
didn't say anything to her about the OBJ
ject OF the trip. but just kept it for
a little surprise"
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-16
WOMAN MEETS
DEATH WHILE
SCALING CLIFF
DARING MOUNTAIN CLIMBER IS
INSTANTLY KILLED
MISS GRACE BARNETT OF RERKE-
LEY THE VICTIM
Fatal Accident Occurs In Kern River
canyon--Escort Has Narrow
Escape from Similar
Fate

BY Associated Press
vIsALIA, Cal. July 15.-Miss Grace
Barnett of Berkeley was instantly
killed Monday by fail from q cliff on
the edge of what is known as Big Ar
royo canyon, located about a mile from
the camp of the Sierra club in Kern
river canyon.
A party from the club had climbed
Keweah peak, and descended near lake
Moraine. Miss Barnett with her COM
panion, Edward Hohfeld. both daring
and active mountain climbers. deter
mined to make their way back to the
camp through rough and precipitous
gorge, considered almost impossible
the rest of the party being content to
take a safe and easy trail.
The adventurous pair had almost
reached the end of their hazardous
climb when Miss Barnett lost her foot
ing. and dragging Mr.. Hohfeld, who
was assisting her, plunged over the
edge of the cliff and fell headlong TO
the bottom, instant death resulting
from the fall.
Mr.. Hohfeld's fall was arrested by
various ODSlTuCllol5f anu nAiiN
badly shaken and terribly shocked at
the fatal ending of the pleasure trip
was able to make his way to the main
camp with news of the disaster.
On his arrival a party of ten strong
men set out hurridly, and after perl
lous climb they succeeded in recover
ing the body and bore it back to camp
where the rest of the party was as
seInbled.
From the club camp to the Mineral
King mine the body was taken by a
packer. It took day and a half for
the party to reach Visalia, so rough
and broken are the roads.
Miss Edna Cadwaller of Berkeley
Miss Zee Zaermann Of Tulare and Miss
Glen L. Davis of Berkeley, all intimate
friends of the dead girl, made the sad
Journey with the body.
Miss Barnett was a graduate of the
University of California, her class be-
ing 1902. She was rs years old and
leaves a mother, brother and sister
residing at Berkeley. Since her gradu-
alton from the university she has been
head of the drawing department of the
Berkeley high school.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-16
MINE WORKERS PLAN
CLOSER RELATIONSHIP
Both Organizations Are Ready to Co
operate, in Order That Better
Results May Be Obtained
for Members
BY Associated Press.

BY Assoclateu Fress.
DENVER, July 15.-President Thorn
as H. Lewis of the United Mine Work
ers of America, accompanied by ]. w.
Lawson and Duncan Mcdonald, mem
bers of the executive board, and James
Mooney, national organizer of the
United Mine Workers. appeared before
the convention of the Western FEEDER
alton of Miners here this afternoon
and appealed for closer relations be-
tween the two organizations.
He requested the Western Fedora
ton not to receive any more coal min
ers into it's unions and promised that
his organization would, in return, as
sist in organizing metalliferous miners.
President Meyer of the Western Fed
GRAFTON. replying, said he personally
favored closer relations between the
two organizations, and pledged himself
to do all in his power to bring about
such a condition.
The executive board was ordered by
the convention to meet with the United
Mine Workers officials Saturday after
noon in an attempt to bring about a
working agreement and the principal
differences between the two organiza-
lions is the contract system. The
United Mine Workers enter into con-
tracts with operators, while the West
ern Federation does not allow it's MEM
bers to make contracts.
A message was received announcing
the acquittaI Of Steve Adams at Grand
Junction on the charge of murder, and
the secretary was ordered to send the
following:
1.-THE Western Federation OF Miners
in convention assembled congratulates
you and each and all rejoice in your
complete vindication from the foul
charges of Buckley Wells and his
conspirators."
The convention then adjourned in
honor of Adams aeaRtttaA
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-16
IS
NOT RESPONSIBLE
is HELD TO BE MENTALLY
INCOMPETENT
Important Case just Decided in Michi-
gan Involves an Estate Valued
at Seventy-flve Thou
sand Dollars
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
CHICAGO, July ia dispatch to
the Inter Ocean from Cassopolis, Mich,
says: That a spiritualist is mentally
incompetent is the holding of the SUI
preme court in a decision rendered yes
terday upholding the verdict of Case
county jury which decided that John #.
Golf was unbalanced mentally on the
subject of spiritualism and therefore
incompetent when he made his will dis
inheriting his only son. Leslie, in favor
OF spiritualists' associations. The son
is now more than so years of age. He
has been a resident of Oklahoma for a
number OF years and is a well-to-do
business man of that state.
It was alleged that the old man was
influenced by the members of the spir-
itualistic cult to such an extent that
he was made to believe his son was not
in fact his legitimate heir, and it is
upon this supposition that the old man
is believed to have acted when he made
a will in favor of the spiritualists and
disinherited his son.
The estate was to have been used in
the advancement of spiritualism
throughout the world. When the son
announced that he would make a fight
for the money left by his father the
national association of spiritualists en-
ployed lawyers and defended the ac-
ton.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-16
ALA PAYS THE
DEATH PENALTY
EXECUTION IS EXTREMELY
SENSATIONAL
When Told to Prepare for the End,
the Prisoner Declares He Is
Ready to Die for
Crime

BY Associated Prea5-
CANON CITY, Colo, July 15.-Call-
ing down the maledictions of the Most
High upon the Roman priesthood and
shouting in Italian Long live Italy;
long live the Protestants, Giuseppe
ALA, the murderer of Father Leo Helm
richs, was carried to the death trap
exactly at $3.50 o'clock tonight and paid
the extreme penalty of his crime.
Perhaps a more sensational and thrill
ing scene was never beheld by any of
the sixteen present than the execution
of this misguided Italian murderer,
whose cries and screams were only
hushed by the automatic springing OF
the mechanism which forever silenced
against those whom Ala had consid-
cred the destroyers of his home and
happiness.
At o'clock this afternoon Warden
Cleghorn of the state prison, through
his interpreter, Antonio Sasso, a prison
guard, read the death warrant to Ala.
Contrary to expectations, the prisoner
exhibited no emotion, not even moving
a muscle, and when the reading was
finished said:
''All right, I am ready to die now"
At o'clock supper was served to the
prisoner, it being the regular meal
served to the officers OF the prison.
At o'clock Guard Sasso came to him
with the information that within one
hour the execution would take place.
Ala again assented and said he was
ready at any time He further said he
felt no sorrow whatever for having
killed Father Leo. He was certain that
Father Leo was the man he had been
searching for for many months, and
claimed that he recognized the priest
as his tormentor by scar on the side
of his face.
Ala said he had worked for Father
Leo in Portugal, and was sure that he
had killed the right man. Ala said
he did not believe there was God, for
if so he would not have been permitted
to have been in his present predica-
ment. He said he found no fault with
the law, but that the priest did wrong
in breaking UP his family.
readiness, the wardens assistants APP
preached Alias cell and led the con-
demned man to the execution house,
where the black cap and moose were
adjusted by the deputy warden. Dur
ing this procedure Ala became frantic,
and rent the air with yells and curses
against the priesthood and shouting
Long live Italy; long live the Protes-
tants."
ALA was placed upon the trap, Chap
lain Blake of the prison uttered a short
prayer, the dropping water of the auto
matte mechanism released the great
weight and at exactly $3.50 the body
was jerked into the air.
Unfortunately his neck was not broken
owing to the slipping of the rope, and
he died of strangulation. After nine
teen minutes Alias body was cut down
and he was pronounced dead.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-16
DYING. MOTHER PLANS
HER SONS WEDDING

SCRANTON, Pa, July 15.-At 1880
o'clock in the morning Miss Loretta
Kirst and Joseph RAIDER both of South
Scranton, were married at st. Mary's
church. An hour later the mother of
the bridegroom was buried.
A wedding and funeral in the same
family within the hour is unusual, but
such was the desire of the dead wo-
man. Elaborate plans had been made
for the wedding, and they were still
under way when she was taken i'll.
Realizing that she would not recover
she insisted that the wedding be per-
formed and at the time originally set.
From her sickbed the mother planned
many of the details of the marriage
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-16
YOUNG GIRL PROVES
HERSELF A HEROINE
Only Thirteen Years Old, but Kept
Her Head Better Than Most
of the GroWn-ups

EASTPORT, L. l., July 15.-Charlie,
the 6-year-old son of Mrs. Charles San
dusky, is the hero of the village, the re-
suit Of his bravely rescuing his mother
from the attack of a vicious COW.
Mrs. Sandusky was gored several
times, the COW tearing deep gashes in
her side with her horns, and probably
would have killed the woman but for
the timely arrival of her son. Attracted
by his mothers screams, the boy rushed
to the spot, and by striking the COW
with a club drove the animal back,
enabling the victim to escape. The COW
then charged upon the boy, who.
springing quickly aside, escaped. Mrs.
Sandusky was severely injured.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-16
FORT WAYNE PUTS HIGH
TAX ON CLAIRVOYANTS

FORT WAYNE. Ind, July 49,
and others of the ilk who have sys-
tematically robbed people in Fort
Wayne for years, had their graft taken
from them when the city council pass
ed an ordinance requiring a license fee
of $1,000 a year. all to be paid when the
license is obtained.
This is regarded as prohibitive.
Councilman WEIGH introduced the or
dinance at the last session, fixing the
license at $500, but the committee on
rules, regulations and ordinances went
him one better and doubled the price,
which met his approval There was
not vote against the measure.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-16
SALT LAKE EMPLOYEES WILL
PICNIC AT TERMINAL ISLAND

The employees of the Salt Lake road
will hold a picnic next Sunday at Ter
minal Island.
Among the diversions will be a
75-yard race for single men and one
of the same distance for married men.
a 50-yard race for fat men. 25-yard
race for single women and one for
married women and 25-yard race for
girls.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-16
FOURTH OF JULY VICTIM
DIES FROM L0CKJAW

NEW YORK, July 15.-The first re-
ported tetanus victim of the Fourth of
July in this city was Thomas Nolan,
aged 10, who lived with an uncle,
Joseph Whitley, at Fort Hamilton. He
received a toy cannon on the Fourth.
1t made a lot of noise when he began
to celebrate the day. but it made more
noise when 1t exploded. The boy was
severely wounded.
A physician cauterized the wound and
Nolan seemed to be recovering until
yesterday morning. Then symptoms of
lockjaw began to develop.
An ambulance took the boy to the
Norwegian hospital and an operation
was performed. Then tetanus anti
toxin was injected, but the little fellow
died In agony.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-16
CHAUTAU0UANS HEAR
TALK ON BIBLE TESTED

PACIFIC GROVE, July 15.-The Cali
fornia Chautauquans gathered early this
morning in the Chautauqua hall here
to listen to Rev. /. C. w. Coxe's Bible
study talk on The Bible Tested"
The tests We're its purity, its utility,
its accord with human experience and
it's legality.
Mrs Viola p. Franklin devoted the
forum hour to the dissection of the
short story, so popular a feature of the
present magazine literature
Tonight's platform was filed by Mrs.
w. Lake Of ST. Louis who in a lecture
on "The Divine Rights of Children
vigorously insisted on better birth con-
ditions, especially in the matter OF
sexual purity and clean living gener-
ally on the paternal equally with the
maternal factor in family life.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-16
MAINE DEMOCRATS COME
OUT STRONG FOR BRYAN

8 BANGOR, Me-, July I5.--The Demo- Z
) cratic state convention today unani- Z
> mously adopted the following express Z
3 sion Of sentiment toward William j. (
) Bryan and instructed the convention to Z
) telegraph II to MIR. Bryant Z
) 1.-THE Democrats of Maine in conven- {
> ti0n assembled extend to you and the Z
Z. Democracy of the nation their heart 4
) lest congratulations upon your nomina- {
) tiOn for presidency and pledge you their Z
8 earnest support" Z
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-16
NEW YORK CENTRAL TO
BOOST FREIGHT RATES

NEW YORK, July 15.-As a forerun-
ner of the general increase of 10 per
cent in freight rates to be made by the
eastern trunk lines In the near future,
the New York Central railroad has filed
with the interstate commerce commits
sion new rate on sugar and coffee
between New York and Chicago.
This means an IL per cent in the
present freight rates on coffee between
the two cities and 2-3 per cent in
crease in the present rate on sugar.
The new rates will go into effect on
August instead of October l, as at
first intended.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-16
FORMER BASEBALL PLAYER
is ACCUSED OF MURDER

BUFFALO, N. Y, July 15.-Joseph w.
Smith was arrested at Niagara Falls
today at the request of Chief of Police
Shippy of Chicago. 1t is alleged Smith
shot and killed Valentine Hustler in
Chicago July II. Smith was formerly
a professional ball player.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-16
FIFTY.sEVEN FISHERMEN
DROWN DURING GALE

SANTANDER, Spain, July 15-It is
reported that fifty-seven fishermen be-
longing TO the ports Of Bermeo and On
darroa, have been drowned in the gale
which has been sweeping the coast for
the past two or three days.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-16
Robbie's Guess

Ethel: "oh. Robbie. look What fat
antsg
Robbie: yes; guess there was a picnic
out here iatelyr'-Yonkers Statesman.