Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-02

Must Stay in Bed-Governor
remain in bed a day or two. He is
suffering from a high fever, but is in
no danger.
Officer Overcome-Policeman
H. Smith was overcome by smoke on
Wednesday night while attempting to
rescue a canary bird in fiat fire at
Chicago. Other policemen dragged
Smith from the burning building. The
bird was suffocated.
To Build Palace Hotel-New
York is to have another million-do
hotel. Thomas Stanley, one of the
Stanley Bros, the Broadway restau-
rant proprietors, announces work will
soon begin on a twelve-story structure
between Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh
streets, on Broadway.
To Visit London - Several
officials of the Dominion government
will visit London after the close of
the present session of parliament, it is
said on good authority, in order to con-
fer with the imperial authorities con-
corning the proposed Canadian gift or
a Dreadnaught to the English navy.
Make Big Strike-Billy Clark,
from Circle City, Alaska, says that on
Nolan creek, in the Koyukuk, john
son and Olson recently took out a
$4,000 pan. He reports Nolan creek to
be very rich, nearly all the men in the
camp striking it either in the creek or
on the benches.
Police Contribute-Chief Ship
by of Chicago in a recent order has
asked the members of the police de-
partment about 400 in number, to con-
tribute SO cents each toward fund for
the widow of Joseph Finn, who was
shot by Policeman Alexander Scott re-
Gently, being mistaken, Scott alleges,
for another man.
Falls Forty-fve Feet-Milton
Herts, the 6-year-old son of janitor
in Harlem, N. Y, had the double mis-
fortune of falling off the roof of his
home a distance of forty-five feet. and
landing in a quicksand bog below. He
was conscious when rescued, and be-
sides suffering from the quicksand,
fractured his skull.
Drunkards Increase - Convic-
lions for drunkenness have increased
throughout the Dominion of Canada by
1854 per cent in the last ten years, &C
cording to statistics in a parliamentary
blue book, which has just been issued.
In 1907 the increase of convictions for
general offenses under the criminal
code was 1917 per cent.
Count in New York - Count
Alexander Tallyrand Peregord, a cous-
in of the Prince de Sagan, who married
Anna Gould after her divorce from
Count Boni de Castellane, is in New
York. He arrived there wednesday
night with a number of travelling COM
panions from Europe and will stay in
this country two months.
To Improve Illinois-A COM
mittee of twenty-seven men from ali
parts of Illinois has formed an organ
ization, known as the Illinois Out-of-
Door Improvement association. The
object is to perfect the sanitary, drain
age and general appearance of the
towns and country of Illinois. Presi-
dent James of the University of Hi
nois has been elected chairman.
Require Extra Steamer-M. ].
Heney of Seattle, who has the contract
for the construction Of the Copper
River railroad may have to charter
extra steamers to carry the 1000 rail-
road men he is hiring for the extension
of the Guggenheim line to the copper
mines in the interior of Alaska. In or
der to rush the line Heney has offered
rock miners such an advance for sta
ton work over local rates that railroad
builders in Washington are compelled
to offer extra inducements to get men
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