Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-04
TfLEGRAPHIC BRIEFS

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Returns Conscience Money
Two strange women in an automobile
have created a new mystery by calling
at the home of Comptroller Herman A.
Metz at New York and leaving pack
age containing $675, Ito be applied to
the conscience fund of Manhattan"
The comptroller has been unable to
think of anyone who owes the borough
the amount and who is afraid to have
it known
New Fog Signals Placed-Sub-
marine fog signal appliances, the first
to be used on the Pacific coast, have
been placed on the steamers MIS-
sourian, Nebraskan and Columbian OF
the American Hawaiian line, which
run to San Francisco. The bell sig
nails can be heard fifteen miles and
receiving apparatus warns the bridge
of similar signals before they are dis
tinguished by the lookouts.
Congressman Ill-Representa-
tive Francis w. Cushman of Tacoma,
Wash, who is suffering from pneu-
monia in Roosevelt hospital, New
York, following a minor operation, was
| In such a critical condition Saturday
the doctors feared he would die. He
was In a state of coma most of the
night With daylight he revived slight
| ly, but it was said the crisis would
not be passed until after today.
Will Check Baggage - The
passenger officials of the western rail-
| roads, who met in Chicago for the pur-
| pose of considering a large docket OF
questions relating to passenger trafnc,
| have decided not to discontinue the
1 - .I,n if1rr Eae erarQ o.
from hotels and residences. This ques-
| ton has aroused a great amount OF
| discussion among the railroad men, and
it was recently decided to abandon the
practice July l.
Mrs. Gould Generous-Mrs.
Katherine Clemmons Gould, who was
| granted a decree of separation from
Howard Gould, has presented to vari-
Gus court house attendants OF New
York who extended courtesies to her
valuable presents. An elevator attend
ant in whose car she rode -FOUR times
daily during the trial has received
gold mounted amber cigar holder In a
gold case, bearing the inscription:
with many thanks, from Mrs. Howard
Gould"
Railroad Nearing Completion
THE Western Pacific railroad will be
completed and ready for operation be-
tween ogden and Oakland, Cali, by
| October /, according to H. M. Nc
! Carthy. first assistant to the chief en-
gineer. The company has 5000 men at
work on the 2o0-mile gap that remains
to be closed. Mccarthy says there is
no rolling stock at this end, but If cars
and engines were provided trains
could be run into the Feather river
country at once.
Sloop to Run Breakers-The
Norwegian sloop Gjoa will be run
through the breakers on the ocean
beach today and dragged to its per-
manent resting place in Golden Gate
park, where it will stand as monu-
ment to the daring seamanship of
Capt. Raold Amundsen, discoverer of
the Northwest passage. The contract
for the peculiar bit of navigation was
let to Captain Klitgaard, fellow
countryman of the explorer, yester-
day.
Too Much Social Life-The
tendency to overemphasize the social
side of university life is criticised by
President Judson of the University of
Chicago in a report on the condltlon
of the university, made 7ublic Friday.
'"The problem before great number
of American universi les today is the
hand and the ~xercising of intellectual
activity in order to provide larger at
tainments on the other" says Presi-
dent Judson.
Will Revise Rates-The Of
6cers OF twelve bonding surety compa
nies doing business in the United States
have offered to revise their rates on
public officials, provided Chairman
Tawney of the house committee on ap-
propriations will withdraw his bill pro-
viding for the establishment of fund
by the government for carrying the
bonds of its employees The government
claimed that rates on public officials
had been very materially increased dur
ing the past year and without any
justification in the way of experience.
Will Become Opera Singer
With the hope of becoming an opera
singer. Mrs. Wallace d. Scott, formerly
Mrs. Roland b. MolineauX of New
York, has arranged to sail for europe
Ito study music. During the first ana
| second trials of Molineaux on the
charge of having murdered MRS; Kate
Adams his wife, who was Miss Blanche
| Cheseborough, offered him much COM
| fort and remained near him in cot
tage at Sing Sing during the interim of
the two trials. Following his acquittal
she went to South Dakota and there
obtained divorce, soon a1ter pelng
married to Scott, who was her attorney
in that action.
Theatrical Men Fight-Wil-
liam S. Cleveland, the famous minstrel,
and John S. Berger, theatrical man
ager. who controls circuses and travel
ing animal shows, fought fist and
cane duel at Thirty-ninth street and
Broadway, New York, as a result OF
which Mr.. Cleveland had q large bump
or his head Saturday from Mr.. Ber-
gers cane and Mr.. Berger's face was
Somewhat discolored. Cleveland and
Berger had had dispute over busi-
ness affair recently, and when they met
on broadway they commenced to be-
| labor each other, Berger using his
1va1lrine stick and Cleveland his fists.
BrutaIly Beaten and Robbed
| BAKERSFIELD, July 3.--Bert Will
| son, a bartender of Mojave, was held
ot.A nnFa nm