Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-26
TfLEGRAPHIC BRIEFS

CALLS FOR STATENIENT-rhe comp
troller of the currency yesterday issued a
call on national banks for statement of
their condition at the close OF business on
September 23- 1908.
ACCUSED OF THEFTS-Nne men are
under arrest in Sacramento for the alleged
theft of more than $4,000 worth of amalgam
from gold dredgers operated near Folsom.
Four Of the men have been indicted by the
| grand jury.
RELATIONS FRIENDLY-President Cas-
| tro has received a telegram from Sir Vin-
cent Corbett. the British minister to Vene-
| zuela, who is returning to the capital from
a trip to Port of Spain, Trinidad, indica~
tive of the friendly relations existing be-
tween Venezuela and Great Britain.
CHANGE IN MISUNDERSTANDING to am
nouncement made yesterday at San Fran
cisco seven transatlantic steamship COM
panies and three lines operating on the Pa
cifc have concluded a traffic agreement
for the handling of freight direct from San
Francisco and other Pacific coast points to
Europe by way of the isthmus of Tehuan-
tepec.
NAME CHANGED-Orders have been re-
eeived at Mare Island navy yard to change
the name of the monitor Wyoming to Chey-
enne, when the vessel is placed In commits
sion during the coming week. The name
wyoming will be reserved for use on new
battleship. Commander J. J. Knapp and
the other officers assigned to the monitor
are beginning to arrive at the yard.
S.P. @. A. MEETING--The convention of
humane societies at San jose yesterday
adopted the name of State Humane Society
of California as the official title of the state
organization, and adopted portions or the
recommendations made by the committee
on organization. At noon the delegates
started for Saratoga on the interurban
cars. where they had an outdoor banquet,
returning to San Jose at p m. by way
of Los Gatos and Campbell.
OPPOSE REMARRIAGE-The San Fran
cisco Baptist association created a sensation
A1A
conference at Oakland yesterday by pass
ing strenuous resolutions against thS mar
riage of divorced people by Baptist minis
ters. The only exception Will be In the
case of divorces granted on scriptural
grounds. The resolution was proposed by
Rev J. b. Travis of the Bethel Baptist
church of San Francisco. who also IS vice
moderator of the conference.
SIZES FOR DAMAGES-The fling at
PhIllippi, w. Va, of suit for $10O0OO
damages on an allegation of breach OF
promise to marry by Miss Louise Lonsoale'
a New York actress, against Blaine Eikins'
Youngest son of Senator Stephen B. Elkins.
has caused a sensation. The young man is
a brother of Katherine Ellkins. VINO Is re-
ported engaged to marry the uuAe VI
Abruzzi A summons was served on young
Ellkins at his country home at Elkins 10
appear before the federal court to answer
the charge.
RIJEF TRIAL DELAYED--After consum-
ing four weeks in filling the jury box step
backwards was taken in the trial of Abra-
ham Ruef by the dismissal yesterday Of
Matthias d. Meyer, grocer, who had tenn
porarily qualified RMS VIII necessiease go, 80,
ting the twelfth before peremptory
challenges can be exercised. Assistant Dis
trict Attorney Heney this morning chal,
1ansad Never on the ground of bias and
nreiudice against the prosecution and placed
Ioseph b. Seely on the witness stand VINO
testified that Meyer said to him the graft
prosecution was hurting business in San
Francisco"
SITE DECIDED ON-word has been re-
ceved at Mare Island navy YARD tnat the
Tiraless telegraph expedition sent from the
navy yard month ago to establish new
station in Alaska, has determined on White
shed Point seven miles from cordova as
the site The original intention was to
locate the station in the vicinity of Valdez
but the atmospheric conditions there are
a more desirable place. The erection of this
station will complete the chain Of wireless
stations establishing communication from
point Iona in Southern California to the
extreme north.