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Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-09
SAYS SIGNATURES MAY BE
SECURED IN TWO HOURS

1--WE can get enough signatures to
the election petition in our city in a
couple of hours" asserted Capt. Lewis
Hansen yesterday after the Los An
geles city council had approved the
scheme of consolidation. I'VE have
only been waiting for Los Angeles to
take the lead and have been ready to
act as soon as she is"
The Endorsement of San Pedro's con-
solidation committee, which was made
part of the Los Angeles committees
report to the city council. is as follows:
1--WE, the undersigned members of
and representing the consolidation
committee of the city of San Pedro.
having carefully considered the report
of the Los Angeles consolidation COM
mittee to the city council and the civic
bodies of the city of Los Angeles, stat
ing the terms and conditions under
which they recommend the consolida-
ton of San Pedro and Los Angeles,
hereby approve said report and we
recommend that immediate steps be
taken to bring about the union under
one municipal government of SaI
Pedro and Los Angeles for the purpose
of developing the harbor at San Pedro,
commensurate with it's natural advan~
tages."
The recommendation and approval
of the report adopted and signed by
the Wilmington committee was iden-
teal in wording with that of the San
Pedro. committee, except that Will
mington and the Wilmington harbor
were substituted for San Pedro.
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HAWAIIAN BUILDING AT
YUKON FAIR is OPENED
Protest of Japanese Midshipman Leads
to Removal of Nipponese Flag
from Concession

SEATTLE, June S-The doors of the
Hawaiian building at the Alaska Yu-
kon-Pacific exposition were opened this
morning. The exhibit was delayed
owing to TIE late arrival of the United
States transport Dix and the members
of the Hawa iian commission have been
working day and night to get their dis
play in order.
The attendance at the fair for the
seven days ending last night was
221,S72.
On the protest of a Japanese mid
shipman the Japanese flag has been
removed from the building of the
rickshaw concession. The naval youth
objected to his countrys flag being
placed beneath the American or any
other flag, and said that when Rus
sian vessel during the late war hoisted
a white flag with Russian and Japan
csc flags in consecutive order below 1t
the Japanese continued firing. The
fair officials and concessionaire concil-
lated the midshipman, but authorities
on etiquette say he is wrong.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-09
HARRoR COMMISSION SAYS
PLAN is FOR GREATEST HARBoR

In it's resolution of approval of the
plan of consolidation the Los Angeles
harbor commission calls attention to
the conservative and businesslike tone
of the report and the fact that the
recommendations for a $10,000,000 har-
Dor afford 1.-The opportunity of building
one of the great, if not the greatest
municipality owned and controlled har-
bors of refuge and commerce in the
world" The resolutions adopted by
the harbor commission are as followsi
BE it remembered, that on the
18th day of June, 1909, at a special
meeting of the harbor commission
of the city of Los Angeles the fol-
lowing preamble and resolution
was adopted by a unanimous vote
of said commission, to wit:
whereas, the consolidation
committee heretofore appointed by
the representative of the city
council and the civic bodies of the
city of Los Angeles and the hoard
of supervisors of Los Angeles
CONTINUED on Page Eight
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-09
Describes Sanitation in Panama

ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., June s.
Col William C. Gorgas, president-elect
of the American Medical association
and sanitary officer at Panama, in his
address at the opening of the sixtieth
annual convention of that body. today
described at length the work of SANTA
ton in the canal zone.
Colonel Gorgas Endorsed the sugges-
ton of DIR, S. Weir Mitchell of Phila-
delphia for the erection of a monument
in Washington in honor of the army
surgeons and physicians OF the north
ern and southern forces who died in
the Civil War.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-09

and purposes. under the charter OF the
city Of Los Angeles, in the territory now
included within the boundaries OF the
cities of San Pedro and wilmington re-
spectively; and 1t appears to the city
council that said recommendations of
said committee are, and that each of
them is proper and expedient, and cal
culated to promote the consolidation OF
the cities of Los Angeles, San Pedro
and Wilmington. uDon a Just and
equitable basis; and it further appears
to the council that upon such CONSOLE
dalton said recommendations, as APP
proved by this council, should indicate
and form the fixed policy of the con-
solidated city, with reference to said
harbor, and to the government and adj
ministration of the city with reference
to the territory now included within the
boundaries of the cities of San Pedro
and Wilmington;
Accepts Report in Entirety
Now, therefore, be 1t resolved by the
city council of the city of Los Angeles
as follows: That the city council Of
the city of Los Angeles hereby ratifies
the said report and recommendations
of the consolidation committee in their
entirety, and hereby indorses the same,
as providing and setting forth an ade-
quate and comprehensive plan under
which the cities of Los Angeles, San
Pedro and Wilmington can and should
be consolidated into one municipal cor
poration that this city council hereby
declares that it will by every means
within its power. promote the CONSOLE
dalton of the cities of Los Angeles, San
Pedro and Wilmington, in accordance
with the said report and recommended
tions of the consolidation committee,
to the end that when such eonsolida-
tion is effected, a free harbor for COM
merce at San Pedro and Wilmington
bays properly equipped with public
wharves, docks, warehouses, means OF
access and transportation and other
commercial facilities may be estab-
llshed and maintained thereat, which
will inure to the lasting benefit OF the
people of the great municipal corpora
tion proposed to be created, and of all
Southern California,
And be it further resolved, that said
report be spread upon the minutes of
this council, and that the plans therein
set forth for improving said harbor,
for the issuance of bonds for the same
and for the control and administration
of the affairs of the government of the
consolidated city, affecting the terri
tory now included within the boun-
daries Of the cities of San Pedro and
Wilmington. be and the same are
hereby declared as the policy OF the
consolidated city with reference thereto,
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-09
CITIZENS OF SPOKANE VISIT
TAFT REGARDING RATE CASE
Want Decision of Interstate Commerce
Commission Upheld Against
Railroads Proposition

WASHINGTON, June s. - Amend
ments having for their purpose the
more efficient administration of the in
terstate commerce law were suggested
today to President Taft by a delega-
ton of citizens from Spokane, WASH,
who We're accompanied to the White
House by Senator Jones and Represen-
tative Poindexter of Washington. The
chief amendment was one which would
give to the shipper the same right of
appeal to the courts that is now en-
joyed by the railroads.
Tomorrow the delegation will appear
before the interstate commerce COM
mission to oppose the proposition of
the. railroads decided upon the So
called Spokane case as excessive and
to insist that the rates fixed by the
commission in that decision be made
effective,
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COUNCIL UNANIMOUSLY
ADOPTS RESOLUTION

While waiting for the city attorney
to prepare a resolution of Endorsement
the council considered other matters,
but the consolidation committee re-
manned standing in the rear of the
chamber. When presented the resolu-
ton was adopted without comment. 1t
was headed "a resolution of the coun-
ell of the city of Los Angeles ratifying
and approving the report of the COM
mittee appointed to formulate plan
for the consolidation of the cities of
Los Angeles, San Pedro and Whining
ton"
been registered Stoddard Jess, chair
man of the consolidation committee
stepped forward and said THE menu
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-09
Black Hand Located

CINCINNATI, June S.-United States
postoffice inspectors from Cincinnati
believe they have discovered the head
quarters of the Black Hand in this
country at Marion, Ohio. This belief is
based on documentary evidence found
today when Sam Lima of Marion, Ohio;
Antonio Vicaso of Columbus, Ohio. and
A. Marfis of Dennison, Ohio, We're ar
rested
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department, be located in and be properly
equipped and endowed with authority 10
look after and care Tor me SANITARY con,
ditions Of said portion of the consolidated
city.
Ninth-That for the purpose OF providing
adequate means for police and IRE protec-
ton, maintaining library and PARK Iacll-
ties, the care, repair, maintenance ana
lighting of streets and other pubic places
in that portion of the consolidated city
within the present city OF wilmington, the
government of the consolidated city snail lay
out and expend annually within the present
city of Wilmington an amount of money
that shall be not less than the part OF the
municipal taxes for each purpose that shall
be levied by the consolidated city upon the
property now situated within,the SAID city
Of Wilmington
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-09

bers of this committee wish to thank
the city council for their interest in
and support of the work of this COM
mittee."
at think the thanks should come
from the other side" interposed Coun-
Gilman Wallace. 1.-The committee has
accomplished a great work and should
have the thanks of all citizens, and
move that the council extend its APP
probation of the committees labor for
consolidation by a vote of thanks"
The council adopted the motion
unanimously The resolution adopted
by the city council is as follows:
Resolution in Full
whereas. committee of fifteen cit-
gems of the city of Los Angeles was APP
pointed by a committee representing the
city council, board of supervisors and
the various civic bodies of the city of
Los Angeles to prepare and submit to
the people of the cities of Los Angeles,
San Pedro and Wilmington a plan for
eRecting the consolidation of said
cities under the act providing for the
consolidation of municipal corporations,
passed by the legislature of the state OF
California at it's recent session. and,
Whereas, said committee in conjunc-
tion with committees appointed for
such purpose from the cities of San
Pedro and Wilmington respectively, has
formulated a plan under which said
result can be accomplished, and has
this day submitted its report embodying
the same to the city council of the
city of Los Angeles for its approval
and the city council has heard and
considered said report; and,
Whereas, the public interest and well
fare of the people of the cities of Los
Angeles, San Pedro and Wilmington.
and of the other cities and territory in
Southern California in their vicinity,
imperatively demand that a free har-
Dor for commerce. provided with docks,
piers, wharves, warehouses and means
of access and transportation thereto
and therefrom, publicly owned, oper-
ated and controlled, be established at
san Pedro and Wilmington bays; and
for the purpose of establishing such
free harbor and maintaining the same
1t is vital that said bays be within the
boundaries and under the jurisdiction
of one municipal corporation, which
shall be financially able to sustain the
burden. of a bonded Indebtedness es-
sential to the development OF such har-
Dor. and means of access thereto, and
of TRANSFORMATION thereto and therefrom.
and which shall be capable OF enforc-
ing uniform control thereof and of de-
veloping such free harbOr in the man
ner best calculated TO promote the pub
lie interest; and,
Determine Fixed Policy
whereas the report of said commit
tee to the city council recommends a
general plan for developing and inn
proving a free harbor at San Pedro
and Wilmington bays, including the con-
struction OF public docks, piers. wharves,
warehouses and OF means of access
thereto and Of transportation thereto
and therefrom which plan also con-
templates proper provision for carrying
on and administering municipal affairs
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Municipality owned Ferry

Fourth-That a municipality owned
and controlled ferry shall be at once
established at San Pedro. connecting
said portion OF the consolidated city
with Terminal island. The same to be
for the use and benefit of the people and
only such charges shall be made as will
pay the cost of operating and main
tenance of the same but In no event
shall the fare exceed two cents. either
going from or returning to San Pedro:
Fifth-That a municipality owned and
controlled public fish market and fisher
mems wharf be established, on the water
front for the accommodation of the
fishing interests in that portion of the
consolidated city, now known as San
Pedro. The same to be fitted with all
modern conveniences, and only such
charges shall be made therefor as will
be necessary to maintain the same in a
sanitary condition.
SixthAThat a fire station be estab-
Usher in that portion of the CONSOLE
dated city now known as San Pedro.
the same to be fully equipped with mod
ern fire lighting apparatus and suffi-
GENTLY manned to afford ample fire
protection and to be improved to meet
the future demands of that portion of
the consolidated city; and also furnish
to that portion of the consolidated city.
now known as San Pedro. so soon as
practical after consolidation. a NUM-
clpally owned and controlled adequate
supply OF water, both for private and
public use.
Seventh-That a police station. With a
sufficient number of officers and men.
be at once established in that portion
of the consolidated city, now known as
San, Pedro, to safely guard and protect
the interests of said portion of the
ment of the police court properly Off
cered, be established therein
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1909-05-07

unately lost their old Norman name
by changing it to Weed The Law
rences were also New York settlers.
Both Miss Bogue's father and
mother were born in Ogdensburg,
New York. Her father was educated
at Troy Polytechnic, and has since
became one of the most distinguish
ed engineers in the world. His
greatest work probably, was the
building of the Aroya road in Peru,
that much advertised road that runs
above the clouds, from Lima over
the Andes. After six years resi-
dence in South America, Mr.. BQgue
undertook the building of the North
ern Pacific in Washington and the
Baltimore and Maryland, and is at
present directing the engineering
work of the Western Pacific rail-
way.
Miss Bogue was educated in San
Francisco and Portland, Oregon, in
her childhood; gut her real educa-
ton began at the Packer institute,
Brooklyn, New York, where she
graduated at the age of IL. She
then went to Boxwood finishing
school in Lyme. Connecticut, and
then to Role seminary, Role, New
York. Miss Bogue has made two
trips to Europe and has travelled ex-
tensively through Spain, Algeria,
Morocco, Italy, Greece, Turkey,
France and England. She is an ac-
complished musician and has voice
of rare quality. She is an athlete
and is one of the most splendid types
of women. She has written two
books that will shortly be put on the
market. Miss Bogue is about five
feet ten inches in height, splendidly
proportional, with an exceedingly
graceful carriage; is of the brunette
type with large, dark eyes and with
a strong characteristic face. She is
a girl who can do things, and the
Portola festival is to be congratu-
lated upon the selection of so SPLEEN
did young woman.
Interest in the big carnival to be
held in the metropolis from the 10Th
to 29rd of October next is growing
daily and from all sections of the
state people are planning to go to the
celebration. The headquarters are
rooms 936-7-S, Phelan building, San
Francisco.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1909-05-07
BIAWUZ,>THE ALF-BREED---
STORY or NEVADA DESERT

w. F. Ford, the former Tonopah
attorney, who was arrested Monday
in Berkeley at the request of Sheriff
Owens, and who was secretly indict-
ed by the Nye county grand jury, on
the charge .or defrauding two Indians
out of large sum or money, pub
fishes the following story in his mag
azine. "The Square Dealer" The
title of the story is "Biawuz, the
Half Breed" The story is thought
to be the history of Peavine Johnny.
a local Indian, as it is known he was
born at or near Cloverdale The
story follows:
"Biawuz was born at Cloverdale
ranch, Nye county, Nevada. His
mother was Reese river Shoshone
Indian sqtlaw and his father a white
cattleman from Canada, who had
taken possession of a spring which
controlled many thousands of acres
of sand grass land surrounding it,.
The white man had many cattle
and a very comfortable home at
ClOverdale ranch, but he was lonely.
There were no white women near
so he loved and won the daughter of
friendly Shoshone. She left her
people; came to his home to live
with him, and to them was born Bia-
wuz, The Singing Frog"-for the
frogs in the spring sang with joy
when his mother gave him. birth
Few white men respect a mar
Rriage vow to an Indian woman, who
knows no marriage ceremony except
the mere act of taking up her resi-
dence with the man of her choice in
his wigwam, or tepee, or house, as
the case may be. That to her, is mar
rage. She is constant and true. The
white man, as rule, is glad to have
her until such time only as he is
ready to go back to civilization and
home. Then his vows, his wife, and
his children are forgotten; he goes
back "home' and marries some pure
and innocent white woman who never
suspects that her husband has an
other wife who waits aId walls in
the desert night for the father of her
children, who will never return.
The white father of Biawuz re-
turned to Canada-alone; married a
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1909-05-07
MOST BEAUTIFUL GIRL
IN STATE OF CALIFORNIA

The most beautiful girl in the
state of California has finally been
selected. But what a hard job It
was! Over 1000 of CALIFORNIA; most
beautiful girls submitted their
photos to the executive committee of
the Portola festival in San Francisco
for judgment
The staid business men of the city
labored days over deciding upon the
most beautiful girl. 1t was no easy
task. Now these men are ready to
announce their judgment to the
whole world.
Miss Vergilia Bogue, resident of
San Francisco, is the honored young
woman. She occupies high social
position in the metropolis, her father
being Virgil Bogue, vice president
and chief engineer of the Western
Pacific Railway company, and one of
the most eminent men in his work in
the world. -
The selection of Miss Bogue win
do credit to the state of California,
and every loyal son. and daughter
should feel proud of the splendid
representative the executive commit
tee has chosen.
Miss Bogue has had a most inter-
esting career, and while only just
out of her teens has travelled the
world over several times. Her fam
lily is one of the most blue blooded
in this country today
Miss Bogue was born in Auburn
in this state, September 20, 1886.
She is the daughter of Sybil Russell
and Virgil Gay Bogue. She is a
descendant of the Norman house of
de Russell, de Grasse, de Lawrence
and Bogue. Baron Charles de Rus
sell went to England. with the Con-
queror in 1866, and his son, Sir
Charles Russell, was made a baronet.
The family was one of the royalists
but turned to Cromwell, and most of
the family fed to America during
the wars. They settled in Branford,
Connecticut, and in South Hadley,
Massachusetts. The Rev. John Rus
| sell, still true to the cause of Crom-
well concealed in his house at South
Hadley three regicides of Charles II
the men who had signed his death
warrant. The remains are still in
the RUSSELL cellar. His son, Rev.
Samuel Russell of Branford, was in
strumental in organizing the new
University of Connecticut, being a
graduate of Harvard and it was in
his parlors in Branford that Yale
university was founded.
Miss Bogue's mother was the
youngest of large family of child
rem who have since become famous.
Her brother, Leslie W.. Russell be-
came judge of the supreme court of
New York, and her eldest sister was
called the queen of northern New
York by reason of her beauty. 1t is
from her undoubtedly that Miss Bo-
que gets her queenly looks.
Many of the Bogues fought in the
revolution and are entirely New
York family. The de Grasses settled
in Massachusetts in the latter part of
the eighteenth century and unfort-
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1909-05-07

white woman, and has raised a fam
lily. His Indian wife with her father
less boy lived among the willows of
Reese river, disowned and stunned
by her own people, broken hearted
outcast, clothed in the CASTOR gar
ments of miners wives, gathering
pine=nuts and berries and such other
food as she could for herself and
boy, and begged scraps from the din
ner buckets of the miners at Grants
vile to feed the son of the rich
cattleman who had made his pile,
gone home, and married according to
the rites and ceremonies of Chris
tian' civilization.
When Biawuz was about z years
old, his mother had wasted away to
mere shadow of her former beauty
and could no longer gather food for
him or herself; she was starved and
sick and dying.
Zone evening, by their camp fire,
which he made larger than usual be-
cause his mother was so cold, she
told Biawuz the sad story of her
life; of her happy girlhood with her
people; of the white man with the
cattle at the big ranch; of her love
for him; of her marriage to the white
whom che ~ re
ger of her people because she had
married man of another race and
color. She told him that she had
left and forsaken her own people
that she might love and be loved by
this white man only and that his love
had repaid her for all the scorn Of
her people.
She told him of the long and
happy summers with him; of the long
winter evenings when the snow drift
ed deep outside their home, but was
| forgotten in the cheerful 'yarmth Of
the pine-logs heaped high in the big
| fire place-when his father took her
upon his lap as he sat in the big arm
chair, and stroked her hair and ca
ressed her and told her that he
would. love her always and protect
her and her boy. She told him of the
time when the white man had sold
many cattle and had much gold; that
other white men had come and given
him much more gold for the big
ranch; that his. father then wanted