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Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-21
RING RETURNED TO WIFE
OF "WIZARD" PAID BY JOB
Mrs. Thomas A. Edison Rewards Man
Out of Work Who Brings Back
Valuable Diamond

NEW YORK, Oct. 20. - Mrs
Thomas A. Edison, wife of the noted
inventor, proudly exhibited to her
friends yesterday a handsome diamond
ring valued at $1,000, which she lost
six years ago and has just recovered
Coincident with the return of the ring.
a new employe takes up his duties in
the Edison laboratory in Llewellyn
park in the person of Robert S. Nc
Carthy of Orange, who, though out of
work and in financial need, restored the
ring to Mrs. Edison as soon as he
found out she owned it.
Mccarthy found the ring six years
ago, but thought the stone was glass
until he submitted it to jeweler the
other day. Then he began search for
the owner and was rewarded with
check and a job.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-21
DANCE HALL MEN TO
CIRCULATE PETITIONS
Want Recent Ordinance Submitted to
Voters at Next General
Election

Referendum petitions are now being
printed and in a few days they will be
circulated, putting the dance hall ord
nance passed by the city council on the
ballot at the next general election.
Several dance hall proprietors are
behind the movement for the referen-
dunn. The only point they object to in
the ordinance is the clause requiring
dance halls to close at midnight every
night and all day Sunday
other provisions forbidding minors in
the place under IS years of age, forbid
ding the sale of intoxicating liquors
and keeping the lights at a certain can
die power they find no fault with, but
they do insist they be permitted to keep
omen on Sundays.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-21
CEMENT AND CONCRETE
LAID WITHOUT PERMITS
Board of Public Works Refers City
Engineers Revelations to
City Attorney

The city engineer yesterday notified
the board of public works that he had
discovered a number of places where
cement and concrete work had been
done on the city streets without author
ity of the Vrooman act or private con-
tract, or without any permit being is
sued for the purpose, and that this
work had been done without inspection
bv the engineers department as to
quality of material and workmanship.
He cited a long list of such cases. m
Guiding sidewalks and curbs, some of
them containing thousands of square
feet. The board of works was at loss
to know what to do about the matter
and referred it to the city attorney for
a decision as to what action can be
taken. ,.
nenaltv for doing work of this kind
Without recognition of the board OF
Dublic works.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-21
.SYRlANS BARRED
FROM FRANCHISE
RULING BY CENSUS BUREAU
MAY APPLY HERE
LARGE COLONY IN THIS CITY is
INTERESTED
Judqe Hutton Promises to Hand Down
Ruling in Shishim Case Next
Wednesday-NotW White
Persons
SyrianS Cannot Vote

Ia CROSSE, Wis, Oct. 9O.-Under
ruling received here today from r. S.
Coleman, chief examiner of the census
bureau at Washington. one hundred Sy-
rlan voters in La Crosse will lose their
citizenship, while hundreds of others
throughout the northwest will be af-
fected.
The ruling is that syrians, being of
Asiatic origin, are not white persons"
within the meaning of the law. Syrlans
here have voted for years, and form an
important colony. Most of them have
taken out first papers.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-21
OUTLAW TICKET
HANGS HOPES ON
FOES OF HARBOR
MEN WHO FOUGHT FREE PORT
AMONG LEADERS
SMALL EDITOR OF SAN PEDRO
NEWS YlPS LOUDLY
Makes semi-Repudiatio of Candidates
Whom He Helped Nominate as
Delegate to the Rump
Convention

The element opposed to a free har-
Dor in the consolidation fight is now
solidly behind the straight Repubh-
can ticket put up at the rump con-
vention, and in fact stands as the only
faction standing out for the WhoIe
ticket The Southern Pacific leaders
are keeping somewhat in the back
ground. but the little anti-consolda-
ton lights, particularly at San Pedro,
are working actively for the machine
ticket.
Among these is John c. Wray, edi-
tor of the San Pedro News, who
fought bitterly against harbor eXpan-
sion, who is now devOting most of his
time for the nominees of the rump
convention, at which he was con-
spicuous delegate. In signed article
in his paper he devotes a page in IA
vor of the nomination of George A.
Smith for mayor prefacing it with
paragraph about his hour of conf
Dental discussion with d. c. Cassel-
man, chairman of the Republican city
central committee" Mr.. Wray 1nt1-
mates that he is not only for the ma
chine ticket, but that his advice and
suggestions are valuable, because of
his experience and activity against
municipal harbOr in the recent con-
solidatiOn campaign. He is not the
only Southern Pacific supporter at the
harbor who is officially recognized at
Republican party headquarters.
ain On" Scheme
The Republican scheme of dropping
all councilmen but the faithful four,
who, with a certain outsider running
independently as a corporation candi-
date, are to be pushed through for
council control, is apparently well un-
derstood by Mr.. Wray, for after his
'hour of confidential discussion" he
makes the following semi-repudiation
of the candidates whom he helped to
nominate as a delegate at the outlaw
convention: ANY man who thinks he
can forecast with any certainty what
will be the outcome Of the direct pri-
mary law as to city council is a fit
subject for examination as to his SAN
ity." This view of the straight tick
et' candidates resulted in an aban-
donment of the practice of posting
Mr.. Wray's utterances on the bulletin
board at Republican headquarters.
All the Endorsements of Mr.. Smith so
far have been wobbly and qualified at
machine headquarters, and Mr. Wray
follows the flag in this regard, hedg-
ing on the Smith chances in the most
approved fashion. "As view the sit
uation," he says, George A. Smith,
who has the Endorsement of the recent
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-21
ENGINEER TO OCCUPY LATE
OFFICES OF CIVIL SERVICE
Board of Public Works Disposes of
Rooms on Third Floor Of
City Hall

The board of public works yesterday
decided to give to the city engineer the
offices recently occupied by the civil
service commission.
These offices are on the third floor of
the city hall, and adjoin the quarters
new occupied by the city engineer.
They have been vacant for several
months since the civil service commits
sion moved to its new offices in the EX-
change building.
Additional quarters are badly needed
by the city engineer His force is much
crowded as it is now, but the new
offices will be used chiefly as a consul
tation room, where the city engineer
can meet committees of the council
and other bodies that go to him for a
conference over street improvements
and other matters.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-21
Municipal Affairs
MUST QUALIFY AS
FOOD INSPECTORS
CONSTITUTION CLERKS" TO
BE EXAMINED
Civil Cervice Commission Takes Board
of Public Works to Task for
Appointing Men on
Aqueduct

The civil service commission has
called the board of public works
sharply to task for employing men IN
der the classification of construction
clerks to inspect the eating places on
the line of the aQueduCt. Two men are
employed in this capacity, and tney
receive $3.50 a month each. The clNll
service commission notified the ooalu
of public works yesterday that unless
Stems were promptly taken to have
these men qualify as restaurant IN
spectors their salaries would be
stopped.
These men have taken the eNamina-
tiau for restaurant inspectors. one OF
these men, Virgil Franklin has been
examined as restaurant inspector ana
qualified for the position. He was OF
tered such a position by the board or
health. but declined it, as his position
on the aqueduct carried better sal
ary
F. NJ. Dee. chief examiner of the
civil service department, returned yes
terday from q ten days trip along the
line of the aQueduct. Mr.. Dee made
the trip to investigate civil service
conditions. He returned enthused with
what he found.
Aqueduct Free from Politics
l nave Idu 10 10 Will Il lIulAlbIA u
large public works, but never before
have 1 found any so free from politics,
internal or external, as is the aque-
duct No one with a pull can get
job any faster than the man without
a pull 1t is merit that counts, and
the merit displayed is of high class.
I attribute the rapid progress made on
the aqueduct chiefly to the absence Of
politics. This immense public work is
most conclusive evidence of the ad-
vantage of civil service. In only
few isolated cases did 1 find that civil
service rules We're being violated at
all, and these were not serious infrac-
tions. but arose chiefly through the eX-
igencies of the case.
II really think some of the cooks
should be made to take a civil service
examination. At some of the camps
1 visited l found the meals most excel
lent. 1t would be impossible to get
meal in Los Angeles for 90 cents equal
to the food served at some of the
camps. But at some of the camps it
was poor. This was not the fault of
the food provided, but of the cooks
who prepared the food"
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-21
ooksreider Requlsition Issued

eAcpAMENTO. oct. 20.-At the re-
81 of +ha nolice authorities of Los
Gre9J Gneelee @ a reauisition was issued from
t1lie tba governor's office today for the
return To California, from Salt Lake
civ of N. ]. Ocksreider, in demand
in the southern city for an alleged
embezzlement. Ocksreider Is charged
with having embezzled S24OO from
Pease Brothers Furniture company
by which he was employed IN a posi-
ton of trust
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-21
No Matter
How Much
You Expect

you'll be surprised at
the value in our clothes.
We've a very wide
range of prices and at
each price we have
crowded in the maxi
mum quality of fabric,
distinction of design
and excellence of fit
and finish.
q You will be surprised
to find such character
and class in a SIS suit as
we can show you.
q At $40 there's even
more of it, and at SIS
you will obtain the hand
tailoring that makes our
suits so remarkable in
their S h ape-h o1 din g
power.
q The self-confOrming
collars give them the
trim sitting fronts and
close lapels that mean
style.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-21

public mass meeting or convention
called by the Republican city commit
tee, has a royal If not certain chance
of capturing one of the coveted places
on the ticket which will be voted in
December"
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-21

or who took DR.. Silas A. Austin's pic
t,res TO East Los Angeles has been
nutting them on the telephone poles
pVer those attached on behalf of w.
n Mckee, who cut DR.. Austin out OF
the outlaw convention Endorsement.
Eddie Morris is still putting in ms
hest ticks for Candidate Mushet' al
though he is not betting any money on
Mr. Mushet's success at the primary
nominating election. George Arnold
etill iterates that he will be satlsheu
70 see Mr.. Mushet elected mayor.
Although Mr.. Arnold is supporting
o,1 nnindorsed man for the mayoralty
he is making up in loyalty to the
Sc "etraigbt Republican ticket by his
hard work for E. E. BostWick' the
machine candidate for auditor Tor
whom he is putting in his best hcKs'
A. the "Mushet mayoralty organiza-
+ion,, II was denied yesterday that Guy
Sc Garner is longer a lieutenant of the
.'ore,a nization," although Mr.. Garner
was busily handing out Mushet caras
". ,,s,IaI Yesterday afternoon. Mr.. Car
Nv was sacrificed by the Mushet or
nenization l-e because his testimony be,
eora tbe police commission lntertered
With viii Mr.. Mushets liberal campaign
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-21

c. E. Johnston failed to get his peti.
ton through, not having enough bona
fide names on his petition as can
didate for mayor, which appears to
leave the tail end at the primaries to
be chased for by four candidates.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-21

With a fine irony the placard stick.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-21

Members of the Iowa society are
indignant at the aspersion of the Times
yesterday of their state as "back-
woods" in an attempt to belittle Mayor
Alexander, because he came to Los
Angeles from Iowa. Instead of hurt
ing the mayor the sneer is making
votes for him.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-21

I. Margolis asserts that he made a
foray into the Republican organization
camp and captured the Endorsement
of George n. Black for his candidacy
for council. Mr.. Margolis believes there
is so much dissension over councilmen
in the Republican ranks that he will
get a large number of Republican votes
through the aid of Mr.. Blacks sup
port.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-11-17
KILLED BY THREE AUTOS.
Prominent Business Man of Atlanta
is the Victim.

At Atlanta automobile week claim
ed it's first victim Monday night,
when Harvey l.. Anderson, a promi-
nent business a and president of
the Anderson Hardware Company,
was run over by three cars and kill
ed. The man was not dead when
picked up, but died shortly after
being ~ushed to the st. Joseph's In
Urinary. He never regained con-
seriousness.
Mr.. Anderson's wife was an oc-
cupant of one of the cars which ran
over him. She had been at the au-
tomobile show as the guest of Mr..
FL. Seely, the publisher of the At
lanta Georgian, and Mrs. Seely. Mr..
Anderson could not 60, owing to a
pressing business engagement which
kept him late at the store.
His work finished, Mr.. Anderson
went home, and not finding his wife
here, concluded that she had gone
home with the Scmfwycmfwyfwypp
10 walk over to their house on
Peachtree street and, it seems, was
walking in the middle of the street
when the accident occurred. Harvei
Hill, a we'll known attorney, was
the first person to identify the in
jured man. 1t was in Mr.. Hills
auto that he was carried to the ip-
Urinary.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-11-17
THE NEW FERTILIZER.

A discovery of ~far-reaching impor-
lance to the farmers Of the South Is
the new fertilizer which has been
perfected on one of the islands near
Charleston, S. G. 1t has long been
known that lime is an essential food
for plants of all kinds and that they
cannot live when it has been exhaust
ed from the soil. 1t has also been
known that old worn-out lands are
extremely deficient in lime, and that
sour, badly-drained lands have their
lime is a for mthat is not disable by
growing crops.
Farmers Bulletin No. 124, U. s.
Dept. of Agriculture, says: "All
the applications of lime Increased the
Yields The best yields were
obtained with the lime in the form
of carbonate, the finely ground oys-
ter shells standing first = Lime
with fertilizer was more profitable
than depending upon fertilizer
alone"
This new fertilizer which presents
lime in It's most disable form is made
by q new process of burning oyster
shells and using a burner that can
supply potash. The result is a high
grade fertilizer costing the consum-
YER only $500 per ton. 1t reclaims
WORKOUT lands in a marvellous man
ner If applied broadcast two months
ahead Of ammoniated goods: It's
| sweeteaing effects on sour lands Is
almost magical. Charleston freight
rates apply on this new fertilizer.
The factory is located on Young's
island, s. c., but all letters should
be addressed to E. l.. Commins, Sales
Agent, Meggetts. S. C. Free descrip-
tive circulars will be sent to any one
on request.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-11-17
BOY SHOOTS OLD MAN
WILLIAM VI. IRBY SHOT DOWN
By YOUNG PARROT MILAN.
There Seems to Have Been Trouble
Between Mr.. Irby and the Milan
Family for Some Time.

AT 6 o'clock Sunday afternoon on
the public road east of Laurens, Will
liam NJ. Irby, was seriously, though
not necessarily fa;elly, shot by Par
rot Milan. a young white man, the
son of Jas. Milan of the county. The
entire load of shot from a double
barrel breech loader took effect in
the face and head of Mr.. Irby, fear
fully tearing the scalp and fractur-
ing the skull slightly. 1t is not
thought that any of the shot entered
the head and the chances of recovery
are good, although at this time 1t is
impossible to state the outcome.
Young Milan was arrested by
Sheriff Owens a short while after the
shooting; he was met in the road
near his home. Milan Is in Jail
awaiting the result Of the wounds.
1t is possible that bail will be ap-
piled for before Judge Ship.
1t seems that there has been bad
blood between Mr.. Irby and the Mil
am family for some time. Sunday
afternoon, Mr.. Irby was returning
from Sunday school with his little
girl in the buggy with him. AS they
we're passing the Milan home, young
| Parrot Milan came walking out of
| the house with his shotgun in hand.
Don't shoot my child" said Mr..
Irby, bending slightly sideways to
| shield the child from the leveled
gun. Milan fired and the load was
| received in the face and head. Mr..
Irby is receiving careful medical at
| tention and there may be a chance
for recovery.
Mr.. Irby is Familiarity known
| among his friends as big Bill" he
being a powerful mar and of unusual
large size. He is the son of the late
Jas. Irby, and a nephew of the late
| Senator John L. M. Irby. He is a
| substantial farmer. Milan is a
young man, possibly 20 years OF
| age.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-11-17
POISON VALUABLE HORSES.
Diabolical Work Of q Gang Of New
York BIackmailerS.

In New York more than ESQ yalu-
able horses in East Side stables have
been poisoned to death In the last
few months by a gang Of blackmail-
ers for whom the police are eagerly
searching. Detectives declare that
owners of horses in that section Of
the city have already paid at least
$4,000 to the blackmailers and that
their animals have so far enjoyed
immunity.
DR.. H. Stark, chief inspector for
the Society for the Prevention Of
Cruelty to Aniamsl, declares that
while more than $50 and fewer than
500 horses have been killed by pois-
oning, more than 1000 animals have
been given poison, but saved.
The method of the blackmailers Is
to demand, through a letter, several
hundred dollars from the proposed
victim on penalty Of having his hors-
es killed. After the second demand
has been ignored, one or more Of the
victims horses die. 1t has been
found that many of the horses have
been given arsenic.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-11-17
MEDICAL EXPERTS BAFFLED.
BY the Strange Case Of q Young Man
of Virginia.

A Richmond dispatch says medi-
cal experts are interested in the
case of nineteen-year-old Aubrey
Wilson,, of Nottoway county, Vir-
ginia, who is totally blind in the
day but can see like a cat in the
dark.
This young hal can speed a BIZ
cynle when the night is SO dark that
ordinary people have to walk with
caution, but In the day he gropes
about, able only vaguely to distin-
guish any object, and with no dis
elimination as to colors.
Because of his peculiar infirmity.
the young man Is noted as a pos
sum hunter" He can distinguish
the aniamls In the trees in the dark
as readily as a dog can follow the
scent.
All his life Wilson has suffered
from this defect. He says it grows
out of too much light entering the
eye. 1t is called the "albino eye"
he says.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-11-17
Murder Mystery.

An autopsy on the body of Doro-
thy Byrnes, a young girl Of a well
known Brooklyn family, who died
in the Blackwell's Island hospital
Tuesday, brought to light another
murder mystery. The girl admit
ted before her death that she was in
a motor car with strange men and
was forced by their treatment to
jump for her life. In jumping she
fractured her skull.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-11-17
Train Wreck.

Three trainmen are reported kill
ed and thirty-five persons injured
in a wreck at kleinart's station,
twenty miles north of Knoxville,
Tenn, early Tuesday. The north
bound through Louisville and Nash
vile passenger to Cincinnati, which
leaves Knoxville at IL p. m, collid-
ed with a southbound freight.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-11-17
AID TUBERCULOSIS A
North Carolina Preachers Asked to
Deliver Sermons.

Every minister of the State of
North Carolina has been appealed
to by DR.. Chas. A. Julian, assistant
secretary for the State board of
health, to preach a special health
sermon on the subject of tu~berculo-
sis on Sunday, November %. DR..
Julian asks the ministers to stir
up the people of North Carolina to
the dangers of the white plague and
to explain to them how this fatal
malady may be wiped out by pre-
ventive measures. By riveting the
attention of all classes upon this
one subject on the same day he hopes
TO introduce a new and defective
method for fighting the disease.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-11-17
A Young Woman's Desperate Fight for
Her Life Did Not Save Her
MURDERED BY BRUTES
Bits of Torn Cloth Tell Pathetic
Story of the Young Woman's Gal
liant But Unavailing Struggle to
Save Her Life and Her Honor In
a Dark Alley.

a Dark Alley.
There is great excitement at Cairo,
Illinois, over the finding of the dead
body of a young white woman In d
dark alley of the city. Evidences
that the young woman, whose name
was Annie Pel.cy, who worked In a
dry goods s:o'e, fought terriflally
before succumbing to brutal assail-
ants Tuesday night was disc ,vsre1
Wednesday by the police in trying to
solve her murder.
BY means of bits of torn clothins
strewn along an alley. children found
her disfigured body. These nu,e
evidences of the girls love TO" life
and purity showed that she Fought
against murderers for a city block
or more.
Her fight was destined to be q
losing one, for the slayer had cars
fully prepared a gag and heavy cloth
bands with which her cries were sti.
fled and her strength overcome. Miss
Pelley was a country girl Of rather
unusual strength and the police be-
lieve that more than one person at.
tackled her.
The victim of the crime was "a
years old. She went to Cairo a few
months ago from Anna, ILL.,, and was
living with a married sister. Be-
cause of her frequent habit Of spend
ing the night with girl friends, nc
fear was felt by her relatives wher
Miss Pelley failed to return home
the night before.
She was on her way to take a Cal
for home from work in a dry goods
store when last seen by friends, ant
early in the evening. probably Il
hours before the body was found.
Miss Pelley had with her IL yard:
Of red cloth for a dress, and an al
ligator hand bag, both of which
are missing. Her parasol was fount
bent and the handle vas missing
The band used by the assailant re
sembles a slip noose and may have
been thrown about the girls necl
like & lasso. The gag had beer
carefully prepared from a towel.
Four negroes, one a woman, wer'
arrested and placed in jail. Differen
bloodhounds followed a trail to tn
woman's home on eight successive
trails.
Mayor George Parsons offered
reward of $1,000 for conviction O.
the slayer, and a fund is subscrib
ing by citizens.
The latest evidence indicates tina
Miss Pelley was attacked in front o.
her home and dragged nearly a bloch
and a half to the alley.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-11-17
Sold Spoiled Fish.

City Health Officer E. 1. Reardon,
of Sumter, has complained to State
Officer Williams, of a custom
some Of the Charleston fish dealers
have been practicing as noticed by
consignees of Sumter of mixing
spoiled fish with good. The rascal
that does such a thing should he
severely punished.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-11-17
Law Applies to Corporations.

That the law requiring dealers in
oleomargarine to make returns of
their business also applies to corpo-
rations, was held by the United
States supreme court at Washington,
in deciding in favor of the govern
ment in the case of the United States
against the Union Supply Company
of Camden, n. j.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-11-17
Colleton County Election.

In the primary election for mem
Der of the house of representatives,
held in Colleton county Tuesday,
90 out of 80 boxes gives: D. H.
Towles, 341; H. L. Smith, 349; w.
C. Brant, 221. The other seven box
es can not alter the result and
Messrs. Towels and Smith will run
over.