Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-11
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! terday when they learned that an in
| nocent person had been arrested. When
| they read an account of a man having
! been arrested for sending the letter
| which they drew up they at once con-
/ fessed TO their parents.
To Assist Strikers-Emnett
| Flood and John a. Fleet, general or
/ ganizers OF the American Federation of
| Labor, arrived in Pittsburg Friday and
| passed the greater portion of the day
| in conference with p. j. McArdle, presi-
! dent of the Amalgamated Association
| of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers. They
| have been assigned to the Pittsburg
/ district By the American Federation
/ Of Labor to assist the Amalgamated
strike against the American Sheet and
! Tin Plate company.
Predicts New Novelist-The
| great American novel is due, Prof.
! James w. Linn, himself an author, said
! Friday, speaking at the University OF
! Chicago on Have All the Good Novels
! Been Written" This is the psycholo-
| gical year." he said, exactly one CEN
| tury from the appearance of that flood
Of great novels from Scott, Elliott and
! others. The great American novel VIII
| come from some obscure author. II
will be either romantic or on some
great moral problem"
Is Allowed Pay-"Our finding
is that Ashford be reinstated in his
| job in the company employment and
| that he be allowed twenty days pay
| for the time he was off duty" This
| decision was reached Friday by arbi-
| traitors appointed to adjust the single
! difference between the Pittsburg Rail-
! ways company and the employees fol-
! lowing the recent street car strike. Set
! tlement of the Ashford dispute dis
/ pels the last cloud of the two days
| strike-June 27 and Is.
Joins Traffic Bureau-The Os-
aka Shosen Kaisha, which will begin
regular service between Puget Sound
| and the Orient, in connection with the
! Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound
| railroad soon, has been a member of
! the Transpacifc traffic bureau, COM
posed of the various steamship lines
| engaged In regular Oriental traffic.
| Sometime ago the new company was
| invited to join the organization, but
not until a. day or two ago was the
invitation formally accepted.
To Honor Hughes-A WASH
| ington special received in Chicago
| Saturday says: There is strong inn
| preston in New York and Vermont
| that President Taft will offer Governor
| Hughes the first vacancy that occurs
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The tender of the appointment is re-
garded as contingent upon the coming
! of the vacancy at a time when the
! New York governor can accept It.
Many friends of Governor Hughes do
not think he would accept the appoints
ment should it be offered.
Gives Himself Up--Asserting
he was tired of wandering over the
country as a fugitive from justice,
! Scott Johnson, who claims to nave
| murdered a man named McAllister on
a farm near Fort Deposit, Md. last
| April, gave himself up to a deputy
sheriff at Sanamo, Cal, and was taken
to the county Jail there today. Johnson
says that he thought that by going so
far from the scene of his crime he
| would be able to forget, but the pangs
| of conscience finally drove him to give
himself UP to the authorities.
Brings 300 Specimens-Fol-
lowing the arrival of the steamer Min
nehaha, expected at New York today
| the Bronx Geological gardens Will be
the largest and the most comprehen-
sive in the world. Since the erection
| Of new buildings in the last few years,
! the zoo has been the best equipped or
any similar institution, but has lacked
a number of species of animals TO
| make it the most complete. ON the
| Minnehaha, Raymond L. Ditmars,
| curator of the institution, is bringing
| 300 specimens, including ninety-eight
species not at present represented In
| the zoo.
Diamonds Are Found--After
| he had been revived in a hospital,
! Samuel Lowey, a diamond merchant.
| who fell from a New York Central
train when it was going through the
Harlem station at thirty miles an hour.
felt of his pockets Historically and
| asked If his diamonds had been found.
| Doctors drew from his pockets several
packages containing $4,000 worth or
| diamonds, but Lowey said there were
more; that he had two large stones
| in small pocket of his coat. While
| he was describing them the police ar
rived at the hospital with the missing
gems. A passenger had found them.
Doubts as to Marriage
Weeping wives and frightened hus-
bands beseged the office of Marriage
License Clerk Salmonson in the county
| building at Chicago Friday in a. vain
| effort to learn whether they were
| legally married. or whether, according
| to a recent decision of Municipal judge
Better they had been united by JUS
tices of the peace who had no au-
while others led small children. All
| had read of Judge Beitler's ruling that
/ marriage ceremonies performed oy
! justices of the peace in Chicago since
| the Inauguration of the mumclpai
court were null and void.
To Do the Strenuous-AnXous
to emulate the strenuous life and to
carry out their fathers instructions to
| tougher up" Temple and Lewis van
| Abernathy, aged and 8, respectively.
! sons of U S. Marshal John Abernathy
! of Gutherie, Okla, left yesterday for D
| lSOO-mile horseback trip. They Will
| travel alone through Oklahoma, Texas
| and New Mexico to Roswell. ", M.
sam" the now famous COW pony
mount for Roosevelt during his Okla
| homa wolf hunting trip, will carry
Lewis. Temple will ride Geronimo"
! Both ponies are trained in catching
wolves alive" expeditions. The boys
have been limited to thirty-tve miles
a day by their father.
Released from Fine-The mis-
take of Mrs. N. A. Gladding, a pronli-
| nent indianapolis woman and wife of
! the vice president of the F. c. Atkins
| Saw company, in reading abroad as
! "aboard." has released her from the
| penalty of paying a heavy fine for tall-
ure to declare more than $1,000 worth
of gowns purchased in Paris After
leaving Queenstown on the steamship
Cedric, Mrs. Gladding was given
blank form on which to make out her
! declaration of dutiable goods. she
read the words purchased abroad, as
purchased aboard" and IS she had
purchased nothing on board the snip.