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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-08-24
PROBABLY CANNOT LIVE

3. G. Howe, a Well Known Hotel Man
of ST. Johnsbury.
st. Johnsbury, Aug 24.-B. G. Howe
a we'll knoTa hotel man, lies at the
point of death at the home of his
daughter, Mrs. w. t. King, in Bethel,
where he was stricken with a shock
last Friday. He was proprietor OF
the Old Avenue house here in 1875
and then built the present Avenue
house as well as tne opera house. He
was later proprietor of the St Johns.
bury house an also of the Crystal
Lake house.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-08-24

In the death of Rufus b. Godfrey
the town has lost another of its best
citizens. Always active, warm heart
ed and generous he has made himself
the friend " all ages, classes and
conditions. He always had a liking
for the society of young men and
many of his closest friends were men
less than half his own age. In this
way he renewed his youth and main
even after his physical condition be-
came so serious that ne knew that he
was abont to face the great change.
He always took an active interest
in politics, state, national and local.
Whenever there was a close local
contest he could always be seen driv-
ing around town visiting his wide
circle of acquaintance and when the
votes were counted it would be found
that his influence had been potent
and that he had sized up the situation
correctly. He was a man of great
generosity, He didn't make any
noise about it, but his heart and
purse were always open when dis
tress called and few men have given
more, in proportion to their means,
than he. He regularly declined pub
lie office. He could have been post
master at the end of A. ]. Dewey's
term and declined to be candidate.
Always willing and anxious to help
his friends he asked nothing for him
self. The town has lost much in the
death of Mr.. Godfrey.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-08-24

No matter how long you have SUI
fered Foley's Kidney Remedy will help
Won. Mrs. s. l.. Bowen of Wayne, w.
Va, writes: Il was sufferer IRON,
kidney disease so that at times !
could not get out of bed and when.
did | could not stand straight. TOOK
Foley's Kidney Remedy. One dollar
bottle and part of the second cured
me entirely" It will cure you."-
Ouinlan's Pharmacy.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-08-24

this village and Arlington Saturday.
Aug. rs. The usual field day sports
including a ball game and dancing
will furnish the amusement
The Y. p. s. C. e. are to hold a
lawn party and entertainment at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. r. A. Blair
Tuesday eening, Aug. %. The enter
tainpent promises to be unusually
good the main feature of which will
be a golden rod drill by II young
ladies'. Admission 20 cents including
ice cream and cake. Home made
candy will be for sale.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-08-24
The Famous StrObel Air-Ship
Has Been Re-engaged for this Year

When the Cambridge Fair Management special
attraction the year. you may depend that the attraction
all right but when they the Sobe AShip which
ally them $4,000 in cash you depend that is well
worth while TO spend your time and money see it.
But this is only one of the special features.
stage will be greater number greater in
variety and believe the best in respect
Cambridge.
Ten horse aggregate Thrttwo hundred dollars
Musc-Dorngs Celebrated Band Troy kirkpatrck's Mill
Band Troy; Bennington City Band Bennington VT and
Rutland City Band of Rutland.
before in the history of the Fair have entries in the
sheep, swine poultry grain fruit mechanical and
vegetable departments been received early and such large
this Not where them but where
Every building the grounds has been
rented could have been used il we had them.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-08-24

For Indigestion and all stomach
trouble take Foley's Orino Laxative
as it stimulates the stomach and reg,
ulates the bowels and will positively
cure habitual constipation. Quinlan's
Pharmacy.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-08-24

ents, Mr.. and Mrs. George Bradley.
Miss jeanne Jackson, who has been
confined to the house for the past
three months is able to walk out and
take short rides.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-08-24
EAST ARLINGTON

Miss Carrie Shufileton has been
home from Bennington the past week.
Pauline and May Shufieton have
returned from few days visit in
Bennington.
r. A. Blair, DR.. II, Blair and A.
Seeley attended the fair at Rensse-
laer Park Thursday.
Miss Evelyn Ford has returned to
her home in Cambridge, Mass, after
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-08-24
G. II. THOMPSON. M, D. C. M.
Practice limited to

EYE, EAR, NOSE AND THROAT"
Ashland st. (Between Main and Summer SITS
NORTH ADAMS.
Once viii be closed from April LIST to August
lst, during which time he WIN be studying In
the Eye and BAR Hospital, Vienna. Austria.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-16
HOLDS COURT
IN HOSPITAL
TRIAL OF GARW00D MAY END
TODAY
CONVICT CHANGES STORY AND
duplicates PRISONER
Details of Robbery Related at Length
by Two Witnesses-Others
Give Some Damaging
Testimony

Court, jury and attorneys on both
sides in the trial of T. ]. Garwood,
charged with completely in the robbery
of f. G. Johannsen, a Temple street
grocer, December %, made trip to
the county hospital yesterday to listen
to the testimony of the sole witness
produced in Garwood's defense. This
witness is ]. A. Johnson, who was too
i'll to appear in court.
Johnson testified that he met Gar
wood the night of the robbery on Main
street about the time the crime is salu
to have been committed.
James J. Pfeifer, who was brought
back to Los Angeles, from San QUEEN
tin to testify against Garwood, was
again placed on the witness stand yes
terday and retracted his denial of
Wednesday that Garwood had any
thing to do with the robbery, stating
that Garwood. Charles Gavin and nm
self planned the holdup and that Gar
wood signaled his companions to enter
the store while he stood guard ABOUT
100 feet away. The proceeds, he SAID,
were shared equally between hlmselI
and his companions.
Miss May Sherman and John X. car
lahan corroborated Pfeifer's story, tes-
tifying they saw Garwood standing
guard the night of the robbery. Inc
case will go to the jury today.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-16
Municipal Affairs
DECIDE TO FIND OUT
WHO HOLDS LICENSES
BREWERlES BELIEVED TO BE
REAL OWNERS
Mayor Alexander Has Information
That Saloon Keepers Are Held
in Check by System
of Extortion

The new police commission is going
to delve into the liquor business and
find out what is what.
BY a motion of Commissioner Top
ham, made at the police commission
meeting last night, the secretary and
Chief of Police Dishman were instruct
ed to compile a list of the retail liquor
licenses in Los Angeles and tell whc
owns them; not merely who appears
as the owners of record, as that could
all be secured from the books in the
city clerks office, but who is the actual
owner of the licenses.
The commission has the idea that
many of these names that appear on
the official documents as license own
ers are merely dummies" put up for
the benefit of the breweries, who are
the real owners of more than three
fourths of the licenses.
What the commission will do when
it has secured this information was not
made clear, but it is certain the COM
mission will throw down the gauntlet
to the big breweries and wholesalers
and take up the fight of the little re-
tailers who are so closely in the
clutches of the big ones that they are
compelled to gather in every nickel
they can to keep their heads above
wateA
1t - well founded suspicion that
the grinding by the breweries is one of
the causes for saloons breaking the
laws in order to get a few extra nick
els and dimes. Mayor Alexander has
reliable information that the breweries
force those saloon keepers whose Ii
censes they own to pay 6 per cent in
terest on $4,000 as the value of the
license alone.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-16
ONE MEDIUM DENIED
LICENSE; 3 GRANTED
MINISTER DECLARES EDWIN
EARLE FAKlR
Police commission Gives Mary Lehan,
a Cherokee Indian, and Two
Daughters Permits to Prac-
tlce Fortune Telling

BY denying without prejudice one
medium license and granting three 9TH
ers the police commission has taken a
stand on this matter that many inter-
ested persons have been waiting for.
The application of Edwin Earle for q
medium license was denied without
prejudice, on the representations OF
the Rev. w. F. Ireland, Robert T. Hale
and A. M. Buck Rev. Ireland said
Earle was a fakir, pure and simple
and alleged he had swindled people in
Northern California. Mr.. Buck said he
had exposed Earle several times when
he was a resident of Los Angeles be-
fore. and Mr.. Hale asked the police
commission to insist that all mediums
be made to produce credentials from
the city officials in the cities in which
they have last resided showing them of
good moral character and to force them
to file bond as a guarantee that no
swpdling would be conducted before
the permit was granted.
Commissioner Trask took the posi-
ton that while every intelligent and
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-16
POTATO BURGLARS
ARE HELD FOR TRIAL
FIVE YOUTHS ACCUSED OF
MANY ROBBERlES \
Four of Quintet Bound Over to Supe-
rior Court While One May
Be Released on Pro-
baton

Five young men, charged with rob
bling homes in Los Angeles and South
Pasadena, were given their preliminary
hearing in Justice Summerfeld's court
yesterday, and four of the quintet
]. A. Redman, C. e. Swenson, w. c.
Swensen and William Sanders-were
held to answer to the superior court,
while AL Dellamore was certified to
the juvenile court, where an applica-
ton for his release on probation will
be made.
Jewelry, opera glasses and other ar
ticles of more or less value were the
exhibits in the case, witnesses testify
ing that the property was stolen from
their homes while they were absent.
The men are known as the potato
burglars" their plan, it is claimed, be-
ing to enter houses in the guise of
potato peddlers while the owners were
absent.
r. w. Pridham, county supervisor,
whose home at South Pasadena was
ransacked and several articles of jew
elry stolen March 20, was the principal
witness. The men were arrested by
Police officers Humphreys and Rob-
erts.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-16
PATROLMEN ON PROBATION
:. MUST QUALIFY BY WORTH
POLICY of New Chief includes High
Standard of Morals and
Ability

d. That Chief of Police Dishman IN
tends to carry out his plan of making
the police department of Los Angeles
the best in the country and TO erect
by degrees a thorough reorganization
of the force, is evident from an order
issued to department commanders yes
terday reading as follows:
Have your respective lieutenants
and sergeants make you report re-
garding the qualifications, worth ana
ability of all patrolmen nav serving
their probationary periods, and add to
this any knowledge or information
that YOU may possess"
When Chief Dishman assumed the
duties of office he stated that the men
under him must perform Conscientious
and efficient work. and that the best
men would have the best places.
While the new chief is said to be
we'll informed as to conditions exist
ing In the police department at the
present time, hex probably will obtain
a more thorough and complete knowl-
edge of affairs pertaining to the de-
partment before making any changes
either in the detective bureau or the
uniformed force.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-16
KEPT SON-IN-LAW OUT OF
TROUBLE WITH HER MONEY
Mother of Wife in Divorce Suit Testi-
fies That She Provided
for Couple

The contested divorce suit of Mar
garet ]. Krause, daughter of Mrs. Ade-
line Bryson, against her husband, Os-
car w. Krause, an insurance agent
was begun before Judge Hervey OF the
superior court yesterday, Mrs. Krause
claiming that her husband has failed
to support her for a number of years
Mrs. Bryson, owner of the Bryson
block on South Broadway, was one
of the principal witnesses for her
daughter, stating she had expended
many thousands of dollars to keep her
son-in-law out of trouble, and, in
addition, had given Mrs. Krause $3.50 a
month for several years, owing to the
failure of Krause to provide his wife
with either comforts or necessities.
Mrs. Krause also asks the court to al
low her to resume her maiden name.
The hearing was continued to Monday.
Four DEGREES of divorce were granted
as follows: James H. Jones from Hat
tie B. Jones, Emma l.. Hadley from
Guy Hadley Kate e. Tenant from
James Tenant and May c. Reid from
Josie j. Reid.
Three suits were filed. Ada Russell
against John Russell, Maud E. Van
Cleaf against Frank Van Cleaf and
Ada Mills against Laurence Mills.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-16
Wants Wheat Corner Broken

CINCINNATI, April 15.-Simon HUI
big, president of the National Associa-
ton of Master Bakers, sent letters to-
day to every Ohio congressman, asking
legislation to prevent the cornering OF
wheat. The letter says:
THE executive committee of the Ma
tional Association of Master Bakers
respectfully calls your attention to the
nefarious practice in wheat gambling in
Chicago. We believe this should be
stopped at once and prohibited in the
future. Flour being an absolute neces-
sity to keep the body and soul together
we deem it a crime against the rights
of the people to permit wheat gambling
We respectfully but firmly demand of
you, as our representatives, to further
and protect our rights in the future
against speculation, manipulation OF
gambling in wheat"
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-16
GRANTS TEMPORARY RIGHT
TO RUN GASOLINE ENGINE

After months of persistent effort be-
fore Mayor Harpers fire commission,
and constant failures, A. d. Perkins
was granted a temporary permit yes
terday by Mayor AleXander's fire board
to install a gasoline engine in his auto
mobile windshield factory at 315 East
Thirty third street.
Mr. Perkins took an old ramshacl<le
building at this location and improved
it until it presented a reasonably re-
spectacle appearance. He built large
concrete base for an eight-horsepower
gasoline engine and then purchased his
engine The engine he bought is of the
latest pattern and according to his own
allegations could not be heard ten feet
away even without a muffler.
When he was ready for operation
he asked the fire board for a permit
to run his gasoline engine, but was met
with vigorous protest from residents
and property owners in the vicinity.
This was not unusual, as there scarce
ly is a permit of this character granted
that does not produce opposition.
But there was one woman who was
particularly persistent. She occupied
the premises next door to the factory
and feared her peace would be dis
turbed by the throbbing of the engine.
Her complaint caused division in the
board, and twice when but four mem
bers of the old board were present a
motion to grant the permit was lost by
tie vote. Mr.. Perkins offered to run
the engine for thirty days, and then
if there was any complaint he agreed
to give it up.
When he made this proposal to the
board yesterday, Martin Betkouski de-
clared Mr. Perkins should have his
permit and a temporary permit for
thirty days was granted him. If at
the end of that time the board is salts
fed with the operation of the engine
1t will be made permanent
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-16
News Of the Courts
FINED FOR BREAKING
PURE FOOD STATUTE
EIGHT CASES DISPOSED OF IN
JUSTICE COURT
Dispensers of "Wild Cherry Syrup
and Other Articles Not Labeled
According to Law
Are Punished

Two hundred dollars was paid in fines
yesterday by persons who pleaded
guilty to charges of violating the pure
food laws. Eight cases were disposed
of. a fine of $25 being imposed in each
instance.
John Heliotis pleaded guilty to selling
wild cherry syrup" which contained
no tannin as required by law; j. s. Pros
ser, fruit stock syrup containing coal
tar and mislabeled; Ira Brown, sweet
pickles containing benzoic acid; Arthur
Trudel wild cherry syrup" containing
benzoic acid; George H. Stowell,
cayenne pepper containing cornmeal;
]. Schiff, Browns celery phosphate"
colored with coal tar and mislabeled; l..
Bernson, pickles containing benzolc
acid. and A. Nicholson, who admitted
the handling for sale of coloring matter
called Brilliant Rose" containing coal
tar.
ing violation of the pure food laws were
filed yesterday.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-16
interpretations

The following articles of incorpora-
ton We're filed in the county clerk s
office yesterday:
Verdugo Canyon Land company, cap
ital, $260,O0O; directors, r. e. Chase,
Glendale Ira w. Byrnes and Ralph e.
Dobbs, Los Angeles.
Gem Amusement company, capital,
$4,000; directors, j. NJ. Boland, B. A.
Wheelock, Dorothy Wheelock, A. f.
Rosenheim and H. r. Hawkins.
Pacific Equipment company, capital,
$4,000; directors, Jacob II. Klassman,
Paul S. Quest and Otto A. Rattey.
Garden Home company, capital, $780,
900; directors, w H. Tonkin, Harvey
Davis, Mary e. Harrison, Byron Erik
enbrecher and j. F. McClish.
Trustee company of Los Angeles capt.
tai subscribed, $4,000 stockholders, A.
L. Hawley, A. B. Smith, L. D. Sale, L. W.
Moultrie, C. w. Talbot, e. NJ Hille-
gas, w. H. Robinson, William Davis,
Henry Newly, F. De Witt Smith, c. B.
Blinn, w. F. Knight, James Mills,
Fred w. Voeglein, A. B. Smith and A.
w. Bumiller
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-16

educated person knew these mediums
were fakirs, yet there were many who
patronized them for harmless amuse-
ment. much as they would a sleight-
of-hand performance, and he saw moth
ing wrong in granting them permits.
He declared If they practiced fraud
there were laws to punish them, and
these laws could be invoked.
Earle will have the privilege of a re-
hearing IL he will produce credentials
from the last scene of his operations
Just to show they were not narrow
minded on the subject, the commission
granted Mary Lehan and her two
daughters licenses to practice fortune
telling at different places in the city.
Mary Lehan is a Cherokee Indian and
is the mother of twenty-one children,
all of whom are living.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-16
ONLY AN APPEAL CAN STOP
OPENING OF GRAND AVENUE
Application for Injunction to Restrain
City from Selling Property
Is Denied

Unless an appeal is taken, no further
obstacle remains to, the selling of
property involved in the proposed
opening of Grand avenue from Temple
to California street. Judge Bordwell
handed down a decision yesterday
denying the application of Clarence S.
Stoner for an injunction to restrain the
city from selling property in the assess
ment district. which extends north to
Sunset boulevard, south to Court
street, east to Hill street and west to
Bunker Hill.
The temporary restraining order
granted by Judge Bordwell, when the
suit was instituted several weeks ago,
is discharged.
The sale of the property has been
continued from time to time, awaiting
the decision of the court, and is now
advertised to take place in few days.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-16
JUDGMENT IN FAVOR
OF HARRY DEAN is GIVEN

Judgment in favor of Harry E. Dean.
who sued Willis H. Shumway for re-
cission of a deed to property in West
Adams Heights, valued at $500, was
given by Judge Houser of the superior
court yesterday. Dean traded his
property for stock of the Founders
company, the value of which, he testi-
fed, had been misrepresented.
Shumway, president of the company,
contended that Dean held the stock
for two years without investigating
and had therefore lost his right on ac-
count of the delay to bring an action
in court.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-16
SEEK RELEASE OF MRS.
briggs BY HABEAS CORPUS
Proceedings Instituted to Procure Lib
GRAFTON of Woman Accused
of Forgery

Habeas corpus proceedings for the re-
lease from jail of Mrs. Gertrude briggs,
charged with recording forged lease
ito. part of the estate left by the late
John Charnock, were begun by e. c.
Noleman, Mrs. briggs attorney, in
Judge Willis court yesterday.
Mr. Noleman contends that the evil
dence at the preliminary hearing before
Justice Ling does not show that the
crime of forgery was committed and
that the testimony of one of the prose-
cution's witnesses proved that Char
mock had signed the leases. Judge Will
lis took the matter under ADJUSTMENT.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-16
RICHES OF GRAIN
DEALERS VANISH


Mr.. Patten referred frankly to himself
as a speculator as we'll as grain
and incidentally admitted
that he is long of cotton.
I'm a grain merchant" he said
but I'm a Spectator also. l like to
speculate. It's great game. 1t looks
like this to me; Cotton at the pres
ent price is just about as cheap as
wheat would be around a dollar. So I
took a flyer, but believe me, 1 am not
trying to manipulate it,
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-16
SAYS CHECK IN CARLSON
CASE OBTAINED WR0NGLY
Attorney for Former Bank President
Wants Paper Excluded from
the Evidence

The time in the preliminary examina-
ton yesterday of w. H. Carlson,
charged with embezzling $127 of the
funds of the Consolidated bank while
president of the institution, was occu-
pied in citing authorities to show
that the check on which the en-
bezzlement charge is based should be
excluded from the evidence, Carlson
attorney, T. ]. X. MacGowen, contend
ing that the paper was obtained in an
illegal and surreptitious manner. Con-
f1icting authorities were read by Dep
uty District Attorney Blair and argu-
ments on the point in dispute will be
continued today.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-16
To Condemn Property

Condemnation proceedings for the
purpose of opening Twenty third street
from it's present terminus, east of
Compton avenue, to the westerly line of
the right of way of the Pacific Electric,
were instituted in the superior court
yesterday by the filing of a complaint
by the city of Los Angeles against
Charles o. Nourse, G. A. Cortelyou, D.
K. Edwards and a number of other
persons.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-16
Autos Victim Sues

Walter A NJ Thursby, who was run
over and seriously injured by an auto
mobile March 9, filed suit for damages
in the superior court yesterday against
the driver of the machine, Harry
White, and its owner, whose name
Thursby says he does not now know.
General damages of $4,000 and special
damages of $3.50, which include expen-
ditures necessitated by his injuries,
are asked by the plaintiff.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-16
GIVES CITIZENS AND OIL
COMPANY TIME TO AGREE

Another weeks delay was ordered by
the fire commission yesterday in the
case of the application of the Union
Oil company for a permit to operate a
gas engine at it's oil pumping plant back
of Ocean View avenue.
This delay was ordered to see IL the
protesting property owners and the oil
company cannot get together The
company is negotiating for electric
power, and If this is secured the protest
will be withdrawn. The mayor strongly
advised the representatives of the COM
pany to secure electric power il pos
sible, even though it costs a little more
than the natural gas from the oil fields.
declaring the comfort and security or
the home owners near the place was
more to be considered than little in
crease in the cost of operating expenses.
The petitioners declared 1t was their
intention to pamp the oil out of tho
wells as fast as possible in order that
the property might be sold for resi-
dence purposes.