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Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-28
STARVING WOMAN
STFAlSfOR FOOD
PENNlLESS AND HOMELESS,
SHE TAKES HOSE
ARRESTED AS SHE is TRYING TO
SELL LOOT
OFFICERS viii Make investigation, and
If Pathetic Story Proves True
Girl Will Not Be Pros
cuted

out of funds and unable to obtain
employment Evelyn kahle, 70 years
old who came to Los Angeles seVeral
months ago from Chicago, STOLE reel
of hose from the home of {. b. Baxter
1O47s Santee street, carried 1t 10 the sec
ond-hand store of c. z. walker 40
South Spring street. and attempted TO
sell it to obtain enough money to get
something to eat and secure room.
She was arrested by Detectives Hawley
and Mckenzie and is prisoner at the
matron's department of the city jail,
where she will be held pending lnVesti-
cation.
The unfortunate girl had been en-
ployed by Mrs. Woodcock in Pasadena.
Her services were terminated a snort
time ago and she came to this city and
STAYED at the home of Mrs. Herr, 1918
Vermont avenue. where she formerly
worked. She searched for work, but
was unsuccessful, and day after day
she returned to her place of refuge in
q despairing frame of mind.
Tuesday her scant supply OF money
was exhausted and she was hungry and
without place to sleep, not having
ca1. fare with which to return to where
she had been staying, she decided to
steal the hose which she saw at the
Baxter home.
Tells Pathetic Story
After carrying the heavy reel of hose
to the dealer Miss Kahle was told to
return the following morning and re-
ceive payment. Walker decided there
was something wrong and notihed the
police. A detective waited at the store
most of Thanksgiving day, but the girl
failed to appear. Yesterday morning
Walker notified the officers that the
girl was there and to come and IN
vestigate.
She was taken to the detectives Of
flee and admitted she had taken the
hose and told pathetic story, at times
breaking down and sobbing.
She was unable to definitely describe
the place from which the hose had
been taken, and it was necessary Tor
her to accompany the officer and point
out the house
on arriving at the Baxter home De-
tective Mckenzie made inquiries ana
learned that it was the place where
the theft was committed. When MISS
Baxter appeared while Miss Kahle was
sobbing. the latter tearfully exclaimed:
Il stole your hose, but 1 am so sorry
I did it," Miss Baxter walked to the
sobbing girl and, placing her hand on
her shoulder, attempted to ascertain
the reason for the theft. When the
unfortunate girl related her story MISS
Baxter. went in the house and returned
with a small sum of money which she
handed the girl.
An investigation will be made of the
past record of the prisoner, and if her
story is found to be true it is not likely
that she will be prosecuted.
She told the police she formerly lived
al S457 Colfax avenue in Chicago, and
her father had been connected with
the police department at that city.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-28
VETERAN OF CIVIL WAR
is SENTENCED TO FOLSOM
SawteIle Man Found Guilty of Setting
Fire to Two Houses Belonging
to Wife-Gets Eight
Years

Frank NJ. Drummond, a Civil War
veteran, who was found guilty by a
jury last week on a charge of arson,
was sentenced to eight years imprison-
ment in Folsom penitentiary by Judge
Jamison yesterday.
When Drummond was asked if he
had anything to say before sentence
was pronounced he said he preferred
Folsom to San Quentin. His attorney,
II. L. Miller. after motion for new
trial was denied, said he expected to
appeal the case.
Drummond was accused of setting
fire to his wife's two houses at Saw
telle in July. Both buildings were de-
stroyed and Mrs. Drummond narrowly
escaped being burned to death.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-28

permit to install a steam boiler to the
Goodhue bakery, 1888 West Seventeenth
street.
The protestants declared the bakery
already made their lives miserable with
smoke and SCOT and queer noises at UNI
usual hours, and they did not intend.
to have the nuisance increased by
placing a steam boiler on the premises.
The commission postponed action one
week to determine if the majority of
the property owners in the neighbour
hood were of the opinion of the pro-
testants.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-28
WOMAN ROBBED WHILE
SITTING IN HER ROOM

Mrs. A. Oppenheimer of 1898 South
Hope street reported to the police last
night that while she was sitting in her
room a window opening on a porch
was raised and hand reached in and
took from a table a handbag contain
ing $3.50 in money and a diamond ring
and a sapphire ring. valued, all told,
at $3.50
Mrs Oppenheiner was so surprised
and frightened that before she was
able to give an alarm the who who
had committed the robbery had disap-
reared
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-28
ACCUSED OF coNCEALlNG
COW TO OBTAIN REWARD

J. G. Hannah, a rancher of Rivera,
says c. l.. Proctor stole his COW, con-
cealed it until a reward was offered,
and then sent a man with the animal
TO it's own farm yard. The reward was
paid and, according to Hannah, was
divided between Proctor and his hired
man.
Proctor, who was arraigned and
whose hearing was set for December 5,
says the COW strolled into his yard,
that ne tied it up and fed it, but did
not know who was the owner He is
in jail unable to give bail.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-28
GIVES LATE COMERS CHANCE
TO SAVE TAX PENALTIES
City Collector Will Keep Open Office
All Day-Taxes Will Become
Delinquent After
Monday

City taxes become delinquent Monday
afternoon at o'clock, and in order
that all may have an opportunity TO
paw taxes before the penalties are
added the Office of the city tax collector
will be kept open all day today. Us
ually this office, like all the other city
offices, closes at noon on Saturday.
So far over $1,0OO000 has been col
lected, and indications are there will
be fewer delinquencies this year than
the average. But there still Is about
$1,000 900 to collect, most of it being
second payments
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-28
CHARGED with Assault

John c. Steiner. charged with assault
with a deadly weapon, was examined
by Justice Pierce yesterday and held
to answer to the superior court. Stein
er is a carpenter. He is accused by
Mrs. Edgar a. Ross with attacking her
with hammer in June, 1907, while he
was building a fence for one of Mrs.
Ross neighbors. He was released I'M
der a bond of $500.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-28
10 Arraian Robbers

Fred Spaelti, Patrick Burns and Har-
ry Ford, charged with robbing a box
car at Pomona, will be arraigned be-
fore Judge Wilbur today. and have ex-
pressed the intention of pleading guilty.
Sentence, it is believed, will be pro-
nounced at the same time at the re-
quest of the three men.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-28
Hearing Continued

Reynolds and Albert E. stein, paper
box manufacturers, charged with EN-
bezzling s26S6 from the George A.
Schultz company was continued by
Justice Stephens yesterday until this
morning. The delay was caused by the
absence of Witnesses.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-28
Fines Two s25

f. l.. Parks and B. Wynns Of the
Royal Commercial company, were each
fined $25 by Justice Summarized yes
terday for violating the pure food law.
The men, it was charged, were hand
ling Appri Cola phosphate colored with
coal tar dyes.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-28
Mrs. Taylor on Stand

acknowledgement of the estate of her
mother, Mrs. Zerelda S. Wheeler was
again on the witness stand in Judge
Rives' court yesterday in defense of
her, administration. The examination
lasted two hours and was continued
until December %.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-28
Tide Land Suits

The four tide land suits to establish
the title to land on Wilmington bay
will be consolidated into one and
hearing on demurrers will come up Sat
urday next before Judge Conrey or
Judge Bordwell of the superior court.
The land involved is that sought by
the people of the state on which to
carry on the work of the new harbor
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-28

The Southern Pacific sells tickets at halt
rates to all points east as far Beaumont
and return. good only Sunday. also on
Santa Ana branch. Fare to Riverside and
Redlands and return. Through the Orange
Groves" $2.O5 Beaumont, $2.45. and others
Information at city ticket office 500 South
Spring street. corner Sixth. or Arcade sta
ticn
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-28

EDWARDS HOPES TO
RUN CITY ON BONUS
Gets Revenue from About Every Kind
of Refuse the Municipality
Produces and Looks
for More

Visions of the time when enterpris-
ing manufacturers will take over the
entire city government and pay a bonus
for the privilege of running it without
taxes to the property owners are be-
ginning to fit through the imagination
of D. X. Edwards, chief inspector of
public works.
Just now Mr.. Edwards is looking
around for some one who will be will
ing to collect the old papers the city
burns in the incinerator. His idea is
that TIE old papers are valuable for
pulp making, and that even if the paper
collector did not feel he could pay the
city a few thousand dollars a year as a
bonus, at least he would be willing to
pay for the teams required to collect
the papers and the wages of the men
employed.
The city now has as many by-prod-
I is as a packing plant. For many
months a fertilizer company has been
collecting the street sweepings and
making them into fertilizer, taking its
pay in sweepings. The city formerly
had to pay for teams and teamsters to
haul away this material 1t now is re-
lieved of this expense.
Sell Incinerator Ashes
Since las. summer another fertilizer
concern has been sitting the ashes at
the incinerator for potash and other
materials and is paying the city
small bonus for the privilege. In ad-
dition to this this company hauls away
the refuse from the incinerator and
relieves the city of this expense.
Now d man from Denver has stepped
in and wants to take about $4,000 of
the yearly burden off the shoulders of
the tax payers by collecting the citys
garbage free. He proposes to feed it
to hogs. Since his proposal was made
others have declared they would be
willing to collect the garbage free and
pay a small bonus under the district
plan contained in the new specifica-
lions Mr.. Edwards has drawn.
proposition is on foot to collect
all dead animals for fertilizer. This
now costs the city $3.50 a month, ex-
elusive of the cost of incineration,
which is considerable, and this expense
will be abolished if the dead animals
are collected for fertilizer.
Mr. Edwards does not know if there
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-28
MUSHET WINS POINT
IN AUDIT QUARREL
Assistant City Attorney Works Says
Auditor Has Right to Examine
Books in Many Specific
Cases

An opinion given by Assistant City
Attorney Works to the city council
yesterday gives w. c. Mushet, city
auditor. the Gays victory in his audit
ing war with the board of education.
The opinion is to a certain extent a
reversal of former opinion given by
City Attorney Hewitt several months
ago. In his opinion yesterday Attor-
ney Works declares the city auditor
has a legal right to examine the books
of the board of education in a large
number of specific instances, such as
to determine if the boards demand for
appropriation is correctly based, the
necessity for issuing bonds, whether
a special tax should be levied whether
a special allowance should be made by
the council and a number of other
instances.
In a former opinion Mr.. Hewitt de-
clared the city auditor ha no right
to make a general audit of the books
of the school board although he did
have the right in certain instances,
before the annual appropriation was
made.
Says Mushet Is Right
Mr. Works opinion yesterday also
upholds Mr.. Mushet's contention that
city money appropriated for school
purposes should remain in the city
treasury and paid out on demand and
cannot be legally turned over to the
county treasurer, as has been done In
the past, and as the school board de-
mands shall be done this year.
The school board has declared it has
this legal right and cites a decision
of the attorney general. Mr.. Works
said yesterday that the school board
had misnterpreted the decision in the
case to which it referred.
The case is known as Kennedy VS..
Miller and had to do with the San
Diego school funds. But Mr.. Works
says the case was exactly opposite
from the one in Los Angeles. In the
San Diego case suit was brought to
compel the transfer of county money
to the city treasury. Here the point
is the transfer of city money to the
county treasury.
Mr.. Mushet felt very much elated
when the opinion was read to the
council.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-28

It's as easy to secure a bargain in a used
automobile, through want advertising, as it
used to be-and still is-tO secure q horse
and carriage.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-28
MOI Guilty. of crueltY

A jury i'm Justice Selphs court found
Howard j. Profiitt OF Compton not
guilty of cruelty to animals. Proffitt,
1t was claimed, drove a team of horses
unfit for use.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-28
PROPERTY OWNERS PROTEST
AGAINST BAKERY BOILER
Tell Fire Commissioners Goodhue
Plant Is Nuisance Enough as 1t
Is Without Adding to
Their Troubles

Indignant property owners appeared
before the fire commission yesterday
morning to protest against granting
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-28

is any economic value in coal ashes and
tin cans, but he is going to investigate.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-28

The Angelus grill has excellent SER
vice and better food. Fourth and Spring.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-28

II you want to go east. c. Haydock. Agent
III nois Central r. r.. 1ls w. Sixtn street.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-01-29
CLEARS COURT FOR
DAUGHTERS STORY
Geraldine Walker Says Hoxie Was Never
at the House After Her Fathers
Death.

Exeter, n IT,, Jan. 29- When Gerald
inc Walker, the l7-yearold daughter Of
tire defendant in the Hoxie- Walker
alienation suit, took the witness stand
yesterday, the coart room was cleared Of
all not directly concerned in the case.
Miss Walker attends school at BTiar-
seliH, VT She testified that she was at
home for the Easter vacation Of 1907,
which was one Of the periods during
which witnesses for the plaintiff asserted
Eloxie visited the Walker house. She
and her mother were always together
when at home, She said and occupied the
same room
She never saw Hoxie speak to her
mother except on business, or sit down
IN the house, she said Nor had she
ever seen Hoxie at their home after
her fathers death, year ago, testified
the witness.
Her brother, Willard. IS years old,
IN his senior year at ST. Paups, corrob-
Grated her story He said he had never
seen HoNie at the house,
Other witnesses during the day were
Lafayette n. Newell Of Portsmouth,
photographer; William a. Grover Of
Portsmouth; Dr. Austin w. Blair, Bos
ton, who had attended Mrs. Walker and
her son professionally; and Mrs Sarah
f, Kent of Ohio, sister Of Mrs. Walker.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-01-29
JAS. MccoNAcHIE DEAD.
Resident Of Barre Passed Away at Web
sterville To-day.

The death of James McConachie oc-
Cured this morning at Websterville,
where he had recently moved from this
city, the cause being consumption. Mr..
McConachie had been i'll for some time
with the disease and went to Webster
vile in the hope that the open-air occu-
patton and the higher altitude would
prove Of benefit to his health. He was
for a long time resident Of this city
and was wen known and respected. He
leaves family, consisting Of his wife
and four children. Mrs. McConachie IS
i'll at this time Mr. McConaehie was
among the FIRST Of the Scotch citizens.
to come to Barre and follow the occupa-
tion OF granite cutter.
He was born in Aberdeenshire, Scot
land, AZ years ago, but had been q resi-
dent Of Barre for twenty years and more.
He was a member Of Clan Gordon, @. S.
g. Up to recent years he was an athlete
Of considerable ability, being man OF
large frame and powerful physique.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-01-29
Claims Credit For Avoiding
Big Financial Panic
THAT FAV0RITISM CHARGE
Secretary Of the Treasury To-day Made
Reply to the Senates Inquiry as
to the Ground for His Action
in the Crisis.

Washington, d. G., JAN 09.--'In every
measure taken BY the secretary, he feel.
that he was found to have regard moi
simply to the operations Of the treasury
but 70 their effect upon the financial
condition OF the country. The present
heed OF the department has not assumed
this obligation willingly, and would be
glad to be relieved Of Il, at least in part,
by suitable legislation With these
words, Secretary Cortelyou concluded his
l500O-ward reply to the Senate resolu.
tion Of inquiry iustifying the radical
methods he used in meeting the recent
financial panic.
He claims for his administration the
full credit for preventing disastrous
financial panic. He meets the charge
Of favoritism in the distribution of bonds
by producing records that they went to
80 states, and the certificates to eighteen
states, located in different sections of
the country. Public deposits were made
to meet the business demands and not
merely to accommodate the banks.
He notes recent withdrawal Of Sl0.-
100000 from the New York banks ana
saws that this will be followed by n
cali upon banks outside Of New York.
which will be based upon local conditions
rather than upon the payment of fxed
percentage Of their holdings Of public
money"
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-01-29
Over Death Of Man Whose
Body Was Found Yesterday
in WOODS NEAR SWANTON
Mans Name Is Not Known But He Is
Thought to Have Been Hun
garian Laborer on Rail-
road.

swanton, Jan. 29.-An inquest was
held to-day to determine the cause Of
the death and to establish the identity
Of the man whose body was found in
the woods north Of this place yesterday.
As YET there is no identification Of the
man, but he is thought to have been a
Hungarian laborer On the fly leaf Of a
prayer book which was found on his
person was a note showing that he had
sailed from Bremen on August 10, but
not giving the year. There was no mans
on the book
A pay envelope which was numbered
69 contained the name OF Joe Kellar and
the date December, 1907. On the same.
In rubber stamp, was IapFanten which
IS thought to be a station on the Quebec
Southern railroad. The belt Of the cloth
ing was gone and the clothing was
twisted, as If the body had been thrown.
The sum Of $llS in Canadian money
was found in the pockets
The body is now in the undertaking
rooms Of smith a Tilley here
The small poplar stick with which the
strangling cord had been twisted had
been broken from a by brush pile.
Tho dead mans faee was lacerated and
bruised, giving evidence Of struggle.
The place oF the tragedy Is nearly
mile from any honse No cries were
heard In the mans pockets were found
a cotton shirt, several handkerchiefs and
a piece Of new cotton cloth carefully
wrapped up.
Last night States Attorney r. S. Tup-
per said that be had carefully examined
the place where the body was found
and discovered sleigh tracks leading
there and other theories are that the
man may have been murdered and taken
there or murdered after being taken
shere. a little distance from where the
body was found, The snow had heen
Lranpled down and under the snow We're
Dlood stains. The tracks led past
shed In nearby meadow where
ire had recently been kindIcd, and a
title farther ON the tracks were lost.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-01-29
LOVERS QUARREL
ENDED in TWO DEATHS
Young Man Had demonstrated With the
Girl Who Came From the Old
Country to Marry

Pittsbnrg, Pa, Jan. pa quarrel be-
tween two lovers ait Ambridge, near here
last night ended in the death of both,
each inllicting a fatal wound upon the
other. The victims were Mary Cozzini,
u years Old and strikingy beautiful,
and Dominic Polcina, 25 years old. Their
courtship began in italy and he came
to America three years ago to prepare
a home, sending for the girl last 0cto-
her. Polcina Is said to have been most
jealous from the day Of her arrival, and
when she delayed the wedding from time
to time he became frantic.
Last night he visited the girl at the
home Of her sister They talked few
minutes and the girl fled from the kitch.
en- to her own room on the third floor
locking herself in. Polcina followed and
broke open the door, A struggle fol-
lowed. Evidently the girl had prepared
to defend herself. An instant later t.ls re
was shrek and heavy body fell.
1t was that Of Polcina. A delicate, keen
edged knife the girl was known taehav,.
in her room was found near him. The
blade had been thrust into his ear, pierre
ing his brain.
just as he fell polcina fred a shot
from his revolver The bullet entered
the girls side. She ran down the two
flights Of stairs and fell dead on the
kitchen floor. Others in the house rush
ed to the upstairs room where Polcina
died just after they reached him.
IT is presumed that Polcina, after
breaking into the girls room, had threat
ened to shoot her and that she then
stabbed him and attempted to run
away.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-01-29
"MALIGN INFLUENCE
OF POLITICS. ("
Has Been Felt In The Boston Fire De-
partment Says Report Of The FL
nance Commission Given
Last Night.

Boston, Jan. 29.--In report Of nearly
s 600 words. the finance commission
which il making an investigation Of tae
ds partments of the city OF Boston, has
issued its findings on the fire depart.
ment. There are no radical measures
suggested or severe condemnations in
the report.
The commission finds that @since May
er Collins" death, the department has
fallen under the 'nalign influence Of
politics" and that the mayer has usurp
ed to a great extent the power Of ap.
pointment which belongs to the head
Of the department exclusively, and that
political preferment has been exercised
in making appointments, in some cases
to the detriment Of the department. The
efficiency of The clerical force il declared
to be low. The commission places it
self on record as opposed to the one day
off in five, with pay, as causing a cost
Of $4,000 annually, resulting last year
in q deficit Of $4,000
On the whole, however. the commits
sion finds that the department Is in a
splendid state OF efficiency, aooye the
average, that the habits Of the men are
firemen and Of intoxieation unfounded
the apparatus in good shape and the
services rendered Of high grade.
The commission recommends among
other things that hot coffee be served the
tiremen at the large fires irseold weather
at the expense Of the department
in closing its report the commission
recommends among other things:
The Immediate and permanent divorce
OF all political considerations from this
department; strict enforcement Of the
rule forbidding political activity or
joining political clubs by the fremen,
and yearly test of appliances.
The finance commission declares that
the investigation has disclosed evidence
of a combination among certain manu-
facturers Of rubber tires, which the CON-
mission intends to submit to the United
states district attorney.