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Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-25
LOCAL

signal corps alrship sails 1000 feet in
air from ascension at Chutes park
and makes safe landing. PAGE 3
Dog keeps guard over poker game, but
patrolmen arrest players. PAGE 8
sextet of girls will be center of attrac-
ton at annual show of Bankers club
IN November. PAGE s
Elks return from Portola festival and
white squadron team is congratulated
for winning first prize. PAGE 3
ing lottery ordinance. PAGE 3
Killed by fall. Plumber dies in ambu-
PAGE ?
Grateful for demonstration in his be-
half. De Lara thanks auditors and
speakers in mass meeting. PAGE /
Color photography will be shown at IL
Iustrated lecture in Blanchard hall
FACE
Man and woman are equal declares Rev.
Charles E. Locke in his sermon yes
terday' PAGE 10
FAN temperance campaign started at
enthusiastic meeting in Blanchard
hall PAGE 3
Claims refuse dumped where city gar
bage is deposited in Sixth ward is
disagreeable nuisance. PAGE
Police capture alleged holdup after pur-
suing him several blocks and firing at
him five times. PAGE l
Miss Booth. commander of Salvation
army in America. addresses three
large audiences PAGE 5
Editorial, Letter Box and Haslns Let
ter PAGE 4
Theaters and dramatic criticims. PAGE s |
Shipping PAGE 10 |
Mines and mining. PAGE 8 |
City brevities. PAGE 5 |
Classified advertising. PAGE II |
Art notes. PAGE s |
Automobiles. PAGE II |
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-25

until he crosses the river with Presi
dent Taft tomorrow.
He and Vice President Sherman, who
arrives tomorrow, will be guests of
honor at the dedication exercises of the
new federal building in East st. Louis.
A daily paper will be printed on one
of the newspaper boats. A fast launch
will be used by the reporters in gath
ering the news from the twenty-five
boats that will form the fleet after it
leaves Memphis.
The trip will be straight down the
Mississippi with the exception of when
the fleet turns up the Ohio to stop at
Cairo.
The first governor to arrive was
Governor Hay of Washington. Senator
Smoot of Utah also arrived today, as
did Senor Toledo Herrarte, minister
from Guatemala to Washington.
Governor Hay tonight said he was
interested in waterways because the
Pacific coast would be profited by the
deepening of the Mississippi river when
the Panama canal was opened. Senior
Herrarte believes the waterways move
ment will increase the trade with his
country.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-25
SPORTS

Los Angeles wins double-header from
Oakland in final appearance of Com
muters in south this season. PAGE 6
Vernon loses by one-sided score to Sac
ramento, two pitchers being used by
Hogan PAGE 6
Jeffries awaiting meeting to settle de-
tails Of match with Johnson. PAGE 6
Portland and San Francisco break even
in final meeting of the year. PAGE 6
Complete card OF Pacific Athletic club
for next Friday night is arranged. PAGE 6
Burbank ranchers plan big preserve for
purpose Of protection to game and
against fire. PAGE 6
Los Angeles revolver marksmen tie with
Seattle in match shoot by telegraph.
PAGE
Results of Sundays games amateur
diamonds in Southern California.
PAGES CT
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-25
HUNTER SHOT THROUGH
MOUTH; WILL RECOVER

FLAGSTAFF. Ariz., Oct. Baldwin
Babbitt, son of David Babbitt of the
mercantile firm of Babbitt Brothers of
Flagstaff, Williams and Winslow, was
accidentally shot through the mouth
today while hunting for ducks on
Rodgers lake. The ball passed
through his mouth, cutting a cash in
his tongue, knocking out several front
teeth and taking chip from his jaw
bone. A slight Disagreement for life
will result
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-25
MINING

Gigantic consolidation of Gold Roads
mines planned by A. Chester Beatty.
John Hays Hammond and John Fl
Hobbs. pAcr n
Newport Bay oil field has second pro
dueer with third one promised in few
days PAGE 9
Sierra Madre club will. take 200 from
Los Angeles on excursion to oil fields.
PAGE 9
oil and Metal bank expects to open
doors for business in short time PAGE 9
Consolidated mine of Goldield is largest
dividend payer Of II metal mines. PAGE Q
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-25
SOUTH CALIFORNIA

Large bear seen in canyons at edge of
San Bernardno PAGE 10
Independents at Long Beach to hold
convention and select candidates on
Tuesday night PAGE 10
Big Tujunga canyon near Pasadena is
threatened by brush fire. PAGE 10
San Pedro citizens will vote with un-
usual care for mayor and other city
officials pAGE IN
Street railway men of Massachusetts are
guests of Pacific Electric company and
are royalty entertained. PAGE z
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-25
Opposition Causes Delay

PEKING, Oct 24.-Hsu Chih Ching,
president of the board of communica-
tion, has not yet fixed date for the
continuance Of the negotiations for the
foreign loan of $3000O,OOO for the con-
struction of the Hankow-Sze Chuen
railroad, which were left uncompleted
by the death of Chang Chi Fung, the
grand councillor The delay is caused
by the opposition recently expressed by
the Hu-Peh provincial assembly.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-25
COAST

Hanshue's desperate struggle with Pope
and local man makes gritty attempt
TO pass opponent PAGE Il
Throw bomb in front of Japanese art
store in Eureka; no one hurt, but the
damage to interior of building esti-
mated at $3.50. PAGE 5
Dry farming congress will meet in Bill
lngs, Mont, sessions to open Tuesday
morning. PAGE z
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-25
ATROCITIES REVEALED IN
CONGO INDEPENDENT STATE
Officer of Rubber Concern Says COM
pany's Agents Tortured and
Killed Many Natives

BRUSSELS, Oct. 24.-New atrocities
in the Congo Independent state have
been revealed by an officer of a rub
Der company. He charges that be-
tween 1907 and 1909 a number of the
company's agents tortured and killed
many natives, posted armed sentries,
chained and imprisoned the natives to
force them to work, and burned vii.
lagos. The minister of the colonies
has ordered an inquiry,
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-25
FOREIGN

Revolutionlsts score first victory in
Nicaragua; 100 killed, 800 wounded.
PAGE Z
Madrid makes formal protest against
former Premier Maura and execution
oi perrer' PAGE 1
Roosevelts party has thrilling experi
enees In hunt for big game in Africa.
PAGE l
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-25
INDEX OF
THE HERALD'S
NEWS TODAY
FORECAST

FORECAST
For Los Angeles and vicinity:
Cloudy; cooler Monday; light north
wind, changing to south. Maximum
temperature yesterday, SO degrees;
minimum, 68 degrees.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-08
Generosity of Birmingham.

While Brminghams contribution to the fund for the calamity stricken people of Sicily will only be a drop in the bucket, the spirit here is most admirable, and l am sure the Magic City will do herself proud when she gets ready to turn in her subscription to the sufferers from the earthouake,' said a well-known citizen yesterday
 "If man would only stop to think, the appeal is one which cannot be allowed to 20 unheeded, and while citizens may not feel like giving much. every little bit helps The work which is being done locally toward the relief of the stricken people will show results. The theatres are to be commended for their co-opera- ton in the way of giving benefit perform ances, as it is through this means that a big portion of the money will be re- ceived. I attended the Majestic last night and the house was packed at the benefit performance.
 "I notice from reading the papers that volunteer subscriptions are quite numer- ous This above all other things shows the generous spirit which prevails in Bir- mingham whenever worthy cause pre- sents itself" G
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-08
Fighting the Boil WeeYil

Senator Foster should have the sup port of every other southern Senator and member in his effort to procure an emergency appropriation of $250,000 to carry on the fight against the boil wee vii. Senator Foster has seen the good effects of the demonstrations of the department experts in his state, Louis jana. and he wants the campaign kept up and even enlarged through an ap- propriation available as soon as the bill is passed. He does not think it would be wise to wait until July. The money is needed now, when the time for plant ing cotton approaches.
 By superior cultivation good crops of cotton can be grown despite the Mexican pest, whereas the crop would be failure without the aid of the i'm proved methods. Possibly the appear ance of the boil weevil will force our farmers to adopt the superior methods of cultivation, and if it does some good will come out of the flight of the pest across the cotton belt.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-08
cARUsOs CHRISTMAS GIFTS.
Tenor Is Said to Have Received 17,000
 Holiday Remembrances.

Beau Broadway in the New York Tele-
 graph.
 M. Caruso received, so it was said, more than 17,0o0 presents this Christmas tide. As M. Caruso Is a man of the most generous and bountiful nature, with his hand in his pocket to help the poor, deserving and undeserving, all the time, and as the servants of the hotel where he lodges were all of them the recipients of his Christmas largesse, no one will begrudge the tenor his plethora of Christ mas gifts
 Yet 1t is a strange world. Here Is a man who receives, as he probably earns, season he made $15,O00.
 In addition to this there is a publicity given to his actions far greater than that which waits upon those of anyone with the exception of a president or a king. Indeed, the details of the life of M. Ca ruso are more carefully chronicled than those of many kings and many presi- dents. He receives, moreover, a general adulation; the bootblack on Broadway lays down his brushes when, accompa- nied by his suite, the tenor goes by In a sense the whole world is his. All this, not because of any great mental endow- ment of his own, not because he has done, at great expense of creative labor and effort to himself, some signal serv- ice to humanity, but because he has nightingale in his throat.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-08

where. It knows the clerks are not in fallible and that mistakes will be made. but 1t must express surprise that so many important bills were jeopardized during the last session by errors so gross and palpable. The fate of many import bills is fixed now. The errors cannot be cor rected. but the next legislature should see 10 1t that tampering with the journals of the two houses and with bills is a thing of the past. and that the guilty in the future are detected and punished
 The need of a special session to remedy the slovenly work of the clerks did not occur to the Journal. It seems to think the people should grin and bear all mistakes, while it talks of the future It says the errors of the last session cannot be corrected. They cer- tainly could be in a special session unless, indeed, more slovenly clerical processes would be encountered.
 The matter is one that casts sus- picion on all legislation enacted by the present legislature, and it seems as if calamity of that magnitude calls for speedy remedy. The only possible remedy consists in a special session of the legislature with promise of clerical reform.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-08
That Gamblll Resolution

Alderman Gambill refused to furnish specifications when he filed charges against Mayor Ward, but Alderman Heidt was more generous, and the statements made by the latter do not indicate that the new alderman from the Third ward has much of public in- terest up his sleeves. He may have a good deal of personal nature, but AL derman Heidts statements go to show that his colleague is attempting to make a mountain out of molehill.
 It appears that Mayor Ward did act in a certain case as humanity prompted He did save a young man from dis grace and to future usefulness. The attempt to connect George B. Ward with any form of dishonesty will mis- carry The city has never had an honester man in its service. HisNmis- takes have been of the head, never of the heart, and the member from the Third ward is not enough of a veteran or well enough seated to impeach the honesty of George Battey Ward.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-08
ALASkA'S EXHIBIT.
-om the Washington Post.

From the Washington Post
 Alaska will make an exhibit entirely unique and original at the Seattle exposi- tion" said James L. Farmer, chief special agent of the interior department in charge of the exhibit of Alaska, who is at the New Willard. MT. Farmer has spent there on December B.
 "The people of the east have a wrong idea about the climate of Alaska. Just before I left Juneau I had a large bunch Of violets placed on my desk that were grown on the hilsdes of Juneau this month. This is not unusual, for the weather there is milder than it is here in Washington ate strawberries from the vine as late as September, and vegetables of every variety are grown there in sea- son. In the exhibit to be made at the Seattle fair we shall make special feature of the agricultural mineral and fisheries industries and also shall attempt to show what up-to-date facilities in the way of school instruction are afforded, as well as in religious teaching.
 They are not all Indians and gamblers in the new territory. It Is just as law abiding a community as any of the states, and one can live there as com fortably as he can in the most modern residence of Washington.
 "The mineral exhibit at the fair prob ably will be the most extensive and valu- able ever shown at any exposition. In gold alone we shall display nearly q, ,000,C00 worth of metal-gold dust, nuggets and gold bricks-not the spurious kind. Three banks at Nome have offered us three bricks each, valued at $40.000 apiece. We also shall show a nugget of nearly solid copper, just as it was taken from creek. It weighs upward of three tons, and at the present market value of copper is worth about S1000.
 "Yes, know the United States weather tureau has officially proclaimed that win ter has set in in Alaska, and by rights I presume we should all be showed in and bundled up in furs; but the fact is that I have found 1t colder right here in w; shington than it was in Alaska. Be- sides, we have great variety of enter tainDent there that cannot be found here. It is a haven for sportsmen. No such big game can be found anywhere in this coun- try. and the salmon fishing would delight the most blase angler that ever cast a line.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-08
State Prizes to Farmers

Commissioner Wilkinson does right when he offers prizes for the best acre in corn, in oats, in sweet potatoes, in hay and in truck. He offers no prize for the best acre in cotton. Here again he is right. The growing of cotton does not need promotion in this state. We make from 1,2000O to 1 400 900 bales year, and do not grow the corn, the oats, the hay, the truck, or even the sweet potatoes we consume
 Commissioner Wilkinson offers s1675 in generous prizes, hoping to induce a good many farmers to blow 12 inches deep and to fertilize until they are able to present reports from acres in food crops that will be source of pride to the state.
 This is the season for pitching crops, and Commissioner Wilkinson should strive to get his prizes before the farm CTS of every county in this state. All who compete for the prizes offered by the state must send their names and postofice addresses to the commis- sioner of agriculture by or before May 1, stating the prize or prizes for which they will compete Every county should contain contestants; the more the bet
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-08
HER ovERPowERINo JOY.
Girl Tells a Friend How Great Happi-
 ness Has Come Into Her Life.

s. E. Riser in the Chicago Record Herald.
 A bewitchfng young lady who resides in Kansas City and has friends here abouts wrote to one of them, young matron, recently concerning a great joy that had come into her life.
 My dear Grace" the fair young writer said, 'I know you will be greatly in- terested in this happiness which has come to me. You always were kind enough to be deeply interested in my joys and disappointments. No, MT. Washington has not proposed. I should not be gush- ing to you about it if he had. He has plenty of money and good family and all that, but to tell you the truth I don't like him. I suppose it would require a good deal of moral courage on my part to refuse him if he asked me to marry him, but think I should be able to rise to the occasion.s Really, l am very happy, and I should not be happy at all if I were engaged to Cadwaiader Washington. The world seems to nave a new glory--to possess beauties that l have never dreamed of in the past. l suppose you are dying to know what 1t is that has brought me so much happi- ness and wondering why I don't come to the point at once. I shall do so-only wish I could be there to tell you in per son and permit you to see. There are some things that 1t is so hard to write about I can fancy you sitting there with my letter in your hand as you try to guess who it can be. After have assured you that it is not MT. Wadding- ton you are probably convinced that it must be Harry Berden, but you are wrong. He asked me in the fall, if you
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-08
IN HOTEL LOBBlES
Trading Stamp License.

"There seems to be a mistaken idea about the license that merchants will have to pay in order to handle trading stamps" said J. w. Kenyon, manager of the trading stamp company which has recently begun business in Bir- mingham. "The city has imposed an extra license of $20O a year on mer- chants who use the stamps This license is unconstitutional and of course the merchants will not have it to pay.
 About five years go the matter was decided by the Alabama supreme court in a case which went up from Mont gomery. It was at that time held that the extra trading stamp license was unconstitutional. and of course it was never collected. l say this simply be- cause there seems to be mistaken idea abroad about the natter
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-08
sIxTY-NlNE-cENT DOLLAR.
What the Increase in Cost of Living
 Means.

From the Providence Journal.
 The increase in the cost of living for the period from 1897 to 1907 has been shown in many ways, but never more effectively than by the statistics, dia- grams and comparisons presented by Prof. Joseph French Johnson, dean of the School of Commerce of New York University, testifying in the Standard oil hearing. The average consumer requires no mathematical demonstration to con vince him that his money does not go anywhere near so far nowadays as it did ten, or even five years ago. The per- centages and other media of statistical illustration are nevertheless impressive when the consumer is brought face to face with them and discovers how com pletely are his vague and general con- cusions substantiated
 Reduced to the simplest terms, for the general comprehension. Prof Johnson shows that the man who had an in- come say of s2,5OO ten years ago was just as we'll off as he would be today with an income of $S,e2S. That means that the dollar of 1897 is worth now only 69 cents. It is the fact Of course, that the income of many persons has increased correspondingly; so that in the aggregate the sixty-nine-cent dollars, expressed in terms of the commodies to obtain which dollars are required, serve as well as did the fewer one 100 cent dollars ten years ago. Unfortunately. not everybody is reg larly in receipt of an extra supply of s....< A large army of salared persons are compelled keenly to realize that the dol lar is worth much less than 100 cents in relative purchasing power The per cent ages show that the wage-earners are com fortably well off, despite the marked re- duction of the dollars value. The aver age rise in commodity prices is shown to be 30 per cent, while the average wage increase is 26 per cent.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-08
MORSE AND HIS NATIVE TOWN.

From the Providence Journal.
 Whatever may be thought of the financial methods of Mr. Charles ". Morse, the proposal of his former fellow citizens of Bath, Maine, to help him. if possible. in his present trouble indicates a generous if misguided inn pulse of generosity on their part. MT. Morse is perhaps no worse than some other high finaneiers, as might be thought from some of the denuncia- tions that have been heaped upon him. At any rate he did not forget his na- tive town while the heydey of his prosperity lasted, contributing to it's in- tellectual life and transferring to it the register of his many steamships so that it's marine receipts might be swollen. There is a little more than mere gratitude for favors received in the present attitude of the people of Bath, deplorable as it is from an ethi- cal point of view.
 One of MT. Morse's severest critics has been the president of Bowdoin, the college at which he was graduated Dr. Hydes repeated sermons on the subject of Mir. Morse have been along the line of an lmpeachable morality and nobody can object to their ubstance. The financier's Bowdoin classmate, Commander Peary Is a more attrac- tive figure and Bowdoin men doubt less take a larger pride in him. But how was 1t three or even two years ago? At that time MT. Morse was one of the great captains of indus tryq;' if not interruptions, at least he was shrewd to the point of rapacity; yet did anyone in the state of Maine take him for a text? The citizens of Bath in undertaking to raise the money requisite to release MT. Morse on bail show that they are at least not time servers and hypocrites. Yet this very fact, creditable to them in a way as it may be, can hardly be regarded with satisfa ction by those who believe that a high financier deserves less rather than more compunction than an ord- nary sneak thief.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-08
Purchase of the Tennessee Company

Senator Culberson's resolution of in- quiry in relation to the Tennessee con- pany directed to the Attorney General, brought no reply from that official be- cause his superior stepped into the gap after instructing Mir. Bonaparte to pay no attention to the Senate resolu ton. This position adds another de- parture to the Roosevelt list, and if to get all it's information of an official nature from the executive branch of the government from the President himself
 It cannot be said that the Presidents special message adds greatly to the stock of well-informed people. All knew that the Gates syndicate had pur- chased control of the Tennessee con- pany; that the panic of October, 1907, had put that syndicate on the ragged edge, and that the Steel corporation came to it's relief at a critical time. It was also known that the Steel cor portaion does not produce more than 50 per cent of the steel products of the country.
 The Presidents message is frank and interesting, and Senator Culberson will find little in it for just criticism, unless indeed he takes the position that Congress has a right to seek in- formation from any head of any ex- ecutive department.
 If Judge Gary and MT. Prick still think the purchase of control of the Tennessee company was not good business transaction, they have sur prise coming to them when the War rior and the Panama canal are opened. They will then at any rate be glad they purchased the Tennessee stock, for they will then produce steel and steel products on water navigable the year round near tidewater at the low est possible figures of production. Whatever the views of Judge Gary and Mr Prick may have been, it is safe to say they know more now than they did in October, 1907.