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Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-16

Whether the north pole has been
discovered or not made little difference
in Southern California yesterday. The
men who invented soda water In the
81 varieties or who first conceived the
idea of mixing mint leaves with ice
in the accepted form are much more
popular than the gentlemen with
frost in their boards and complica-
tions in their official logs. The only
promising candidate for council, II the
election had come off yesterday, would
have been the ice man.
There have been hotter September
days than yesterday was, but the
weather man had to get down his dusty
ledgers to find out when. He went
back to September 80, 1906, before he
found anything. On that day it was
1O5.
To beat that, he called up the Oldest.
resident and from him found the hot
test thing September ever pulled or
in these parts was September 2l, 1885.
On that memorable occasion the ther-
mometer went up to 108 and the reign
ing king of the weather bureau went
IN north, leaving his baggage uncalled
for.
IT was nice and cool at the minimum
Yesterday morning-70 degrees, in fact.
The only man who experienced that
temperature, however, was the milk
man who was just geeting up and a
clubman who was just going to bed.
1t was at $50 o'clock in the morning.
The mercury got busy about sunrise
and climbed up to perch around the
80 degree mark, where it rested for a
time and rolled up its sleeves. At
ten o'clock, in a perfect burst of speed.
it finished the 9Sth degree lap and
from then on it was in the home
stretch until shortly before noon.
At this time one of the rear tires
went bad and the weather stopped
dead, hung around 101 and fraction
for a few minutes and then sank dis
yiritedly to 100 degrees The effort
had been too much. After brief
rest it gathered itself once more and
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-16
new HEAT RECORD
MADE BY OLD SOL
FOR LOS ANGELES
MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE OF
1O2 DEGREES REACHED
MIX Man Getting Up and Club Man
Going to Bed Only Ones to
Get Benefit Of the
Minimum
COOLER TIMES COMING

Maximum temperature yesterday lO%
de9rees at 1 o'clock in the afternoon was
the highest point touched on the official
records for Los Angeles this year, being
1 degree hotter than was sunday
Aug. 20.
However, the weather man assures Los
Angeles that yesterday was not really SO
bad, considering; for the humidity was
not so great as on the memorable Sunday
ten days ago, having been so per cent
then but only 10 per cent yesterday.
In order to discourage any unwar--
ranted hopes for today he asserts conf
IDENTIFY that "the high pressure area
causing the present hot spell is moving
eastward slowly, and continuation Of
warm weather may be looked for Thurs
lov
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-16
RANCH HOUSES NEAR
SOMIS ARE DOOMED
Hundreds of Tons of Hay and Thou
sands of Dollars Worth of
Beans Destroyed in
Ventura

OXNARD, Sept. 15.-The worst for
est fires in the history of Ventura
county. which have been uncontrolled
for three days and nights, are burning
tonight. Telephone messages from
Somis at 6 o'clock called for all avail
able men to fight the flames.
-Four families were burned out in the
Las Posas hills this afternoon. Hun
dreds of tons of hay were burned and
thousands of dollars worth of beans
destroyed.
Three fires are now raging about the
Bradley, Mahan and Chadwick places,
with the home of the latter ranch
doomed. Several hundred men fought
these fires all night last night and have
the biggest task yet before them in
saving the homes of the ranchers.
The fires began early Monday morn
CONTINUED on Page Six)
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-16

with a determination worthy of
better cause chased the general pubic
into soda fountains and hung ltselI
gracefully on the rung marked luz at
1 o'clock. :.
Content with its performance, 1t
started on the toboggan for good and
at O'Clock in the evening was down
to 95 degrees and still dropping. Put
ting on his overcoat and good stout
pair of overshoes, Weather 1nfiuencer
Wollaber blew out the light, climbed
into his sleigh and drove home for the
night, positive the mercury would play
no more antics with the ceiling. He
promises, however, the hot weather Is
still in running order and that some
real goods may be delivered today.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-16
LOCAL

Forest fires do enormous damage in south
west; Escondido citizens lighting fire and
Moorpark threatened
Land frauds charged against prominent
Imperial valley men will be prosecuted here
by Assistant Attorney General Lawler.
Old Sol piles up record mark of 1O2 on
Los Angeles thermometer.
Mrs. Midge Molster on witness stand de-
nies criminal relations with Harper E. Ben
nett, accused of wife murder.
Hight pressure salt water fire protection
system indorsed by local insurance expert.
Motion of Southern Pacific to quash tide
lands suits is overruled by Judge Bord-
well.
Rev DR.. C. E. Locke makes another plea
for appointment of commission from al
sects to revise Bible for use in public
schools,
Occidental college opens with largest class
of freshmen in its history.
City attorney holds that sale of city hal
property must be approved by referendum
vote.
Despondent over i'll health man makes
successful second attempt at suicide.
Jewish congregations will celebrate their
New Year today.
state board of pharmacy files charges
against Los Angeles druggists, alleging vio-
lations of the poison law.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-16
Fatally Burned In Forest Fire

SAN DIEGO, Sept. 15.-While
fighting brush fire at Dehesa today,
Samuel ]. Sloane was fatally burned:
His foot caught between two rocks and
the flames swept over him before he
could extricate himself. He was about
4G years old and half-brother of Judge
William A. Sloane of this city. He
leaves a widow and several children.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-16

begin in earnest What the president
will speak about while on his tour
has not in any way been announced
except that Mr.. Taft has expressed
himself as being unwilling to remain
silent on the tariff. In the west he
may dwell more or less on the question
Of conservation of natural resources;
in Arizona and New Mexico the mat
ter of statehood ought to come in for
its share. In all probability the great
bulk of what the president will have
to say will be along the lines of his
past speeches and particularly of his
speech of acceptance.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-16
Packers Widow Near Death

CHICAGO, Sept. 15.-Mrs. Nelson
Morris. widow of the Chicago packer.
is near death near Paris, suffering
from injuries received in a motor car
accident, according to word received
today. The accident occurred near
Sainte Bleu, near Paris.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-16
FOREIGN

Trouble between Peru and Bolivia over
boundary dispute close to settlement.
Russia massing army in Siberia is report
from Vladisvostok.
Anita Stewart and Prince Miguel of Bra
ganza are married in Scotland.
Japanese bankers say prosperity is at hand.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-16
Four Men Must Answer to
Land Fraud Charges
ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENER-
Al LAWLER TO PROSECUTE
CHAPLIN BROTHERS, KEMPER AND
McPHERRIN ARE INDICTED
Slgel Skinner, Land Lawyer and Con-
tractor Of Imperial Valley, Also
Implicated In Coming
Trial

HRESH from a conference with
n President Taft at Beverly, AS
n sistant Attorney General Oscar
Lawler, formerly United States district
attorney for the district of Southern
California, Is expected in Los Angeles
to take up, next week, the prosecution
of four prominent Imperial valley land
owners on charges of conspiring to de-
fraud the government of land. Behind
this prosecution are two bitter con-
troversies, one of national Importance.
1t is certain the trial will bring to
head the already bitter fight between
Sigel Skinner. a land lawyer and con-
testor; group of we'll known, wealthy
and influential land owners Of the val
ley, of whom the four accused are
representative, and the general public
of the valley.
Named as Consprators
The men accused are Frank N and
David Chaplin, Paul McPherrin and
Arthur Kemper. The latter are named
in the indictments as conspirators, but
it Is admitted their part was only that
of witnesses, employed as attorneys for
the California Development company,
and by that corporation directed to
aid the Chaplins and others in making
required proof as to the reclamation of
certain lands. The men the govern
ment attorneys are endoavoring to get
are the two Chaplins.
The indictments on which these men
are to have their hearings before the
United States court in the TaJo build
ing, beginning September %, were re-
turned last winter. In brief, they
charge that the Chaplins and the two
attorneys made a deliberate and
fraudulent plan to induce citizens to file
entries on desert land in the Imperial
Continued on Page Two
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-16
curtIss, Record Beaten

SAINT CYR, France, Sept. 10
Santos Dumont today succeeded in
leaving the ground with his aeroplane
after a preliminary run or seventy
meters. This beats the record made by
Glenn II. Curtiss at Brescia, which was
about seventy-two meters.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-16
THE NEWS SUMMARY
FORECAST

For Los Angeles and vicinity: Fair
Thursday; not quite SO warm; light
north wind changing to south. Maxi
mum temperature yesterday, 1902 de-
grees; minimum, 20 degrees.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-16

n RESIDENT TAFT has at last
started on his western trip, the
l. longest single journey ever under
taken by the president of the United
States, lasting two months and swing
ing from Massachusetts, into the north
west, to Oregon and Washington, down
through California to Texas and the
border of Mexico, then up into the
heart of the middle west, down the
Mississippi to the gulf, across to Geor-
gia and then north along the Atlantlc
sa.s - ,ssta -Ftiginia. to the ma
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-16
peposed sultan Writing History

CONSTANTINOPLE, Sept. l5.-Ac-
cording to the newspapers, Abdul
Hamid, the deposed sultan of Turkey, Is
writing a history of his reign.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-16
cardinal satoIII SERIOUSLY iii

MILAN, Sept. 15.-Cardinal Satolli,
who at one time was apostolic delegate
at Washington, is seriously i'll.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-16
EASTERN

Eight men killed in head-on collision near
Nashville Tenn
Negro companion of Peary tells of trip to
north pole.
President Taft on way to Chicago; makes
address at Albany, N. Y.
Democratic league movement is extending
in the west.
Public water troughs for horses are con
demned in Chicago.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-16
COAST

sonoma county farmer shoots down wife in
street and then hangs himself in orchard.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-03-10
The Boys Life Today Is Much More
Comfortable Than Was His Fathers

loom in our family, and it sure was one
holy show.
Every boy that happened along in
our family had to take his regular
crack at wearing that overcoat, and
the boy who showed a contumacious
spirit over wearing it on account OF
the ridicule of his schoolmates, as
shown by their boots of 'Sojer!' and
Coffee cooler!'-well, that boy had to
go without any o%vercoat at all.
"And rubbers for a boy! Well, we'll,
mar alive, I'd like to We seen the ex~
pressions on the faces of the old folks il
any such a crazy suggestion had ever
been made to th~em-rubbers for the
feet of a boy going to school!
I'VE wore topboots. Sometimes they
were boots approximately of the size Of
our feet, but not often. 1 don't remem-
Der ever having a pair of boots that
were originally devised, designed and
intended solely for my w personal
wearing as a boy.
"As a rule, the boots that I wore 60
ing to school were about four sizes too
large for me, so that l sure had to- be
/ mighty wary in walking in muddy and
SliChy pdlIlS, leSL J. puiiCu my iSCt iSht
| smack out of my boots and landed in
the mire in my yarn stocking feet. |
had that dismal thing happen to me
several times before 1 achieved the nee
essary skill that finally enabled me to
take chances even on wading in a duck
| pond without being in any danger oi
losing my boots.
"But over-large as all of the boots
were that came my way when l was q
school kid, they we're pretty hard tc
get into when they were frozen stiff
during the cold weather. I used to try
to utilize this fact Is an excuse Tor re-
manning away from school on extremely
cold days.
"Nope, l never managed to stay
home from school on o of my
boots being frozen. When I'd try tt
put that one over my mother'd say t
me calmly and placidly:
81 know your boots are frozen, son
But there's plenty of authorization OF
the back of the kitchen stove
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-03-10
x THE EVENING STARS TWO PAGE MAGAZINE x
WHAT MAKES A MAN.

II isn't the way you hold you head
When your sun is high and your skies
are blue;
II isn't the smiles you are gladtto she
When everything's going all right
with you.
A coward can laugh at the thorns, l
ween-
When his hand is clasping the red.
red rose:
We all can smile when life's serene,
That thing is. how do you hear our
woes?
1t isn't the coin that you give away,
When you have plenty, that marks
the man:
It's easy enough to smile, l say,
When fortune beams on your favored
plan.
When life is rosy, 'twixt weak and
strong,
No sign of difference ever SHOWS; =.
But the brave nan looms when the
world seems wrong.
The thing is, 10Y do o bear your
woes?
Detroit Free Press.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-03-10
Many Comforts Of Modern Times
Were Not Available Twenty
five Years Ago.

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all Of ne nov r1anod onr hoots nasr +he
stove so,s 20 +haw,au, o,a
"After that ,vo,d tai,o +nrns a;n,ir.
into ~ ,amon. noaontaa,o lei ~ 81,
gers ana thon = - 10 oasa of oaah
bo,, ,,s;na ~ lit ~ 81 A.
ILL., 80 49, 49,
of thosn hoata w. 49, - - ana
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The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-03-10
A MA GUARD AND NO ARTILLERY.

One important change in the New Jersey National Guard is essential to
make it a n effective force in the emergency of a war with a foreign power
The crustacean State Military Board always controlled by elderly men living in
a pastm military 81, las subbornly maintained the guard as a military police
force of use only inland. The board has been unable to see through its ancient
spectacle that here are w great harbors on our coast to be defended; that
these harbors are banked by Notifications; that thu available regular artillery
force is so small that in case OF wr the scaboard States will have to supply
artiHerymen, and that therefore a battalion of heavy artillery, we'll drilled, in
our National Guard would be of nor service to the nation han fl We regiments
of infantry. Modern ordnance ann De handled by infantrymen or mercy olun-
teers. Only trained artileymen car serve at the heavy guns in the forifca-
tbns. New York, Massachusetts N Connecticut have their wen-driled ar
tiley organizations and New Jersey, with her 4I94 troops, canno ut a single
mar ntot the fortihcatons of New York bay OF Delaware bay except to 10 duty
a a laborer.s I'll .tE RI
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-03-10
Cuba's New President
BY MRS. c. R. MILLER, IN LESLIE'S WEEKLY.


patriotic Guiana nan of unusual bravery n n who will cling
to sef-government for the island while here is a thread left to hold
together His decisions n all subjects are carefully weighed, and he is
to follow his w ideas I'M hide b the consequences.
his nation. His task is not a n easy one, but he will bring to it a active
m a patriotic spirit, m all the time L was in his presence Governor
IMasoonfs last words to IN e in reference 20 him kept running through m
tmind. He is a capable and honest mar AM will make a good executive"
President Gomez kads a strenuous life, rising early and working far
into the night He has already sent half a dozen long messages to the Cuban
country usually leaves to his secretaries lie is fond Of baseball n all
outdoor sports He is n excellent horseman and an enthusiastic PEDESTRIAN
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-03-10
LEolsLATlYE wArsR.sNAKH Due
as a laborer

About this time in the legislative session look nut or thu water-snake At
every session for years the snake has pt in al appearance in son form
we-equipped lobby at Trenton to help HI snake to make its sinuous way
through the Legislature The session is 10Y in its ninhw week, and if adjourn
nent is forced at an early day there will be a hurk- buny of Legislation in
which a waters bill would have its best chance of slipping through. An
innocent looking bin, apparently intended for some unobeotonable object
might contain within it a paragraph to completely parakze he State in it's
waterlights suit Or a arfuly drawn bill might repeal the act prohibiting
the diversion Of potable watero N Of the state. The mains are laid n every
thing Ills ready TO make connections under the Kill Won Kun pending h snak-
ing IT. a bill through ue Legislature.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-03-10
Male Children Have a Good Time
Most OF the Time These
Days.

f<A RAW drizzle was sitting
IA down the other morning
when my youngest boy-he's
10 now-was getting ready to start for
school," remarked the proud father,
according to a Philadelphia newspaper
writer, land his mother was on the job,
of course. to see that the boy got the
right kind of start.
It's wet out this morning. son. she
said to him, and you must put on
your rubbers.'
Sc the kid put ON his rubbers. That
is to say, he permitted his mother to
put 'em on for him.
Then she helped him into his nice
warm waterproof ulster with the nifty
n~ew-fangled ulster belt at the back,
and handed him his strapped parcel of
books.
Then the youngster strolled into the
hall. took his pick of the umbrellas in
the rack-and he took the best one in
the bunch, you'd better believe-and
out he went. whistling-ready for any
old kind of weather.
Gosh whites. but thai boy looked
trig and comfortable! And it pleased
me to see him that way, 90. But as
he trudged down the street, sort O.
perky with the dead-sure knowledge
that things were breaking his way and
that there weren't n problems out
side Of his school lessons for him to
have to solve for a good many years to
come-well, as he plodded along ]
looked the shaver over, and ] couldn't
help but think of the perfect snap that
boys got, compared to what was ladled
out to me when I was his age, gu ir
the little upstate town where / lived
"Now, the only o%vercoat that / evel
draped myself with as a boy or thai
l ever put on before I began to buy
~overcoats for myself was whitfield doWr
| from my dads old Army of the Poto'
mac overcoat. 1t was a kind of heir
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-03-10
THE MAXIMUM 7AX-RATE Law.

Whatever may be charged as to the object OF h act establishing a maximum
lax rate in municipalities, above which rat n o taxes could be assessed, the
effect of the law has been to keep the railroad tax rate, which is the average
of all the municipal tax rates in the State dow to thu minimum Under the
tx rate act if he municipality needs more money than he maximum
al produce on a given amount as assessed valuation, TIL rate Of valuation
must be Increased Or bonds be issued. In either case the railroad property
located in the municipality pays n o more tina the average rate. The Assembly
Yesterday defeated a repeater of h maximum tax rate law. While thus keep
ing the screws on the municipalities it is proposed to embarrass them further
by taking away large public school and other revenues for use Tor State pr-
This Kind of legislative policy might have been safely pursued a few
years ao 1t is perlously unsafe for a legislative majority now.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-03-10

POINTED PARAGRAPHS.


Leave the latchstring out for the first
robin.
Lovers knots do not always result In
wedding ties.
A man has time to do anything if he
has the inclination. 6
Don't try to hatter n woman by
complimenting another.
It's easier to marry for money than
it is to get it that way.
our idea of a great talker is a woman
who has enough common sense to know
her limit.
With the coming of Lent, the maj
who swore off the first of the year can
catch his second wind.
Be Johnny-on-the-spot when there Is
an opportunity to be grasped, other
wise you may find it missing.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-03-10

Lectures delivered at Tho State Agricultural College at Jew Brunswick to
a few students are of limited effect Lectures at country railroad stations on
agricultural subjects suited to TIL locality are of wide effect BY adapting his
talk % the understandin of his audiences, avoiding classroom phrases, the
lecture car dhuse much practical education. After the lecture he farmers
will read the literature distributed with closer attention an more nteligenuy
and be in a mood to apply what he learns to the economy of his farm. The
first trip of the farmers special instruction trainm South Jersey yesterday was
encouragingly successful 1t proved that h farmer is receptive O. instruction
in more scientific methods of agriculture Evidently in this new move the
state College has struck a big educational vein that, if followed ID, will yield
rich results for the State.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-03-10

When State Assessor Charles E Hendrickson, jr, was appointed to he board
by Governor Fort it a said that here vas an appointment that would com
petely change the policy of the State boarda and reform all its alleged abuses
MIR Iendrickson evidently didn't find any abuses to reform. He subscribed
to the boards assessment in Jersey City and personally certified to their cor
rectness. Since the legislative session began he has been impressed with the
idea that the function of a State assessor is not SO much to get taxes from
the railroads as it is tt take revenue from the public schools. The zeal displayed
by Mr. Hendrickson in this cause is extraordinary. He has issued long public
statements much confused in their logic Is well Is facts He has lobbied in
dusriously at Trenton, and it is understood he helped the Governor % draft tho
two bills put in by Mr. Young, of this county, for diversion Of the school
moneys MIR. Hendrickson is lot in sympathy with any other proposition for
raising new state revenue through his on State board But why does a State
assessor for railroad property take such a consuming interest in a question
with which his duties do not have the most remote connection that lie cannot
find the time even to tell how his board values the railroad franchises for
assessment? #"#f Htt 81 1
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-03-10
Was a Hen.
IN RIPPING GOOD NJ

THE COOKS DECLENSION.

THE COOKS DECLENSION.
The COO picked up an egg. She
looked at it d~oubtfully.
Its bad she said.
She droSoed 1t.
Its worse.' she hastily added
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The office hunter observes no game
laws.
A SEASONABLE DISPLAY.
The sun went down his golden bars,
And then they seemed to wave
And fill the sky with dazzling stars
I'd slipped upon the pave!
Many a man looks for his best friend
in the mirror.
A PROLIFIC CAUSE.
"What caused the automobile acct
dent-defective construction
mo; defective chauffeur"
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-03-10

1t is true. as Superintendent POLAND of the public schools reported o tn
Boardo of Education last night that about 40 per et of TN $4,000 school children
Of Newark have weak, sore or innamcd eyes,, and that the medical inspector
Of the schools therefore, needs additional help n equipment But isn't the
putting of an item OFFS i0 in the school budget to meet this emergency rank
eAtravagance? How will such an act be regarded at Trenton? Shan it lot b.
said that Newark has furnished another conclusive reason for taking away
revenues from the papIed public schools?