Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-14
TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS

Fair Reaches Record - With
an attendance Monday of 24,601, the to-
tai attendance for the first forty-two
days of the Alaska Yukon-Pacitic eX-
position at Seattle passed the million
mark the grand total being 1,O15,212
This surpasses the record of the Lewis
and Clark exposition and also of the
jamestown exposition.
To Improve Road-lt is Off
cially announced the New York Cen
trail system has made plans entatling
the expenditure of $21, ass, $3.50 during the
current year for various important i'm
proyements. Application has been made
to the New York public service COM
mission for its approval of the neces-
sary financial arrangements.
Funston at Oakland - Gen.
Frederick Funston, commandant of the
army service school at Fort Leaven-
worth, Kansas, arrived in Oakland late
Monday and went Immediately to the
home of his father-in-law, Otto Blank
bert, where his wife and children are
visiting. General Funston will return
to his post late in August for the OPEN
ing Of the school term
Crops Will Be Good-James ].
HILL chairman of the board of directors
of the Great Northern railroad, re-
turned to New York Monday from his
Canadian fishing trip and talked in an
optimistic vein concerning business
and crop conditions. There will be
good crops" said Mr. Hill, mot bump
err crops, but a good, round yield, com
pairing we'll with the average"
Meyer Will Be Reelected
According to reports in Western Fed
Grafton of Miners circles Monday, the
success of the "Moyer idea" will win
for Charles H. Meyers reelection to
the presidency Of the organization, now
in convention in Denver. The "Moyer
idea" consists of limiting unions to
ten-men membership, which enables
secret meetings to be held without
danger from spies.
immigration Increases - A
large increase in immigration through
the port of New York is shown by
figures compiled by the immigration
bureaus of the western railroads for
the first five months of this year. The
total Of alien and citizen steerage ar
rivals was 1857, Ole as compared with
1898 in the corresponding months of
1908. The number of alien arrivals in
creased from 106,679 to S75,277.
Suffers with Diphtheria-Dr.
Charles M. Schoen, city bacteriologist
of Milwaukee. is confined to his
DR.. Schoen began feeling indis-
posed Friday and Sunday he sent
culture samples down to the depart
ment, like any ordinary ailing citizen.
He was sent word that he had diph-
iberia. DR.. Schoen is suffering from an
infection contracted in the laboratory.
Hold Up Hotel-Three masked
men held up the hotel at the Utah hot
springs, ten miles north of Ogden,
at 1920 o'clock Monday night, and AFT
er shooting Richard Barnett, the man
ager of the resort, through the. right
arm pried open the safe used jointly by
the hotel and the postoftlce at that
point and got away with between $4OO
and $500. About $500 of the booty was
in stamps and money belonging to the
government.
Stranded Crew Rescued-After
passing three days and two nights on
the dismantled hulk of the two-masted
schooner Drusie, which had capsized
in mid-ocean in a southerly gale, Cap
tain Thomas James, his crew of three
men 'and a 13-year-old boy, son Of
the vessels owner, were rescued, fam
ished and almost frenzied by thirst
by a boats crew from the steamer
America, which brought them into this
port yesterday.
Makes Inspection - Secretary
of the Interior Ballinger, who came
to Seattle from the east Monday, said
he had come west to make an inspec-
ton of the various reclamation pro-
jects being carried out by the govern
ment. 81 have already visited the gov
eminent project at Mitchell in the
North Platte valley, Nebraska, the
work in the vicinity of Cody, Wyo., on
the Shoshone river and the project at
Huntley, near Billings, Mont" said
the secretary.
Only One Hurt-NeWs of a
remarkable play of lightning at an iso-
lated point in Chaves county. New
Mexico, Sunday has just reached here.
During thunderstorm lightning
struck the house of w. e. Rail, a
homesteader, and H. N. Rutherford,
who, with his family, was at the Rail
home, was killed. Following this, at
intervals of one minute, eleven more
bolts struck the house, each shocking