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Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-29
2 COUPLES TIED FOR
ACTORS DANCE PRIZE
DIFFICULT TO DECIDE MOST
GRACEFUL WALTERS
More Than Four Hundred Persons At
tend First Annual Ball Given by
Theatrical Treasurers'
Association

More than 400 guests attended the
first annual ball of the Theatre
cal Treasurers' association last night
at Goldberg hall. Although the
grand march did not begin until II
o'clock, dancing started much earlier.
being done by those usually ''out in
front" who were not out last night and
by those actors fortunate enough to
be killed early in their respective plays
The large hall was tastefully deco
rated with flags and cut flowers. Many
of the actresses-and it is believed all
in the city and several near-aetresses
were present-wore their most elabo-
rate stage costumes in honor of the
| treasurers. In fact, the Thespians at
present in the city all did their utmost
| to appear to the best advantage.
Treasurers are persons to be culti-
waited, especially in the profession.
When the time for the grand march
arrived the hall was crowded. Those
dancers who had anticipated time by
gliding about the floor before the for
NAL start were banished to the mural
regions. Later they were allowed to
bring up the rear guard of the grand
march Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis Stone led
the march and were followed by the
treasurers. Actors and actresses came
next and last those who are supposed
to do the applauding.
The entertainment committee was
composed of Arthur Dentler, Clifford
Bernard, Robert Grayson Herman
Badler, Dana Hays, Creighton Mynd-
ers, George Baudraud, William Ervast,
Ira Griffith, ]. B. Barnes, Charles
Clark, Ralph Lamme George M. Clay
ton and Joseph Montrose.
In the waltzlng competition for a
prize two couples easily outshone all
the others, but when it came to de-
Gliding between the two couples, the
judges rang for the curtain and com
promised by awarding each couple
silver cup. The couples were Cora
Mersch of the Burbank company and
Harry Davis of Kolb and Dill, and
Mabel Baker of Kolb and Dill and Fred
Gilbert of the Burbank company.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-29
FIFTEEN MILLION DOLLARS
WANTED FOR CANAL WORK
Quarter of a Billion Will Be Appro.
priated if Congress Accepts
Estimates

WASHINGTON, May 2S.-A quarter
of q billion dollars will have been APP
propriated for the purchase and con-
struction of the Isthmus canal if the
estimates for the expenditures in canal
materials for the fiscal year beginning
July l, 1870 are accepted by congress
next winter.
These estimates. amounting to about
$15,00O,0 900, have just been received in
Washington from the canal zone and
are being reviewed by Secretary of
War Dickinson.
Already there has been appropriated
for the purchase of canal rights from
France and Panama and on construc-
ton a total of $210,060 900.
Secretary Dickinson finds it very diff
fcult to reduce the estimates, and
congress itself has learned that a re-
duction of the estimates merely invites
a deficiency appropriation later.
The canal estimates are sent to con-
gress independent of the appropriation
for the military establishment proper.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-29
TELEGRAPH>NEWS IN BRIEF

open door war waged against what is
known as the theatrical syndicate.
Court Upheld-The superior
court of San Joaquin is upheld in a
decision handed down by the appellate
court yesterday in case involving
damages over a stallion that did not
fulfill it's reputation as reproducer.
Francis I. Hodgkins, the plaintiff. was
awarded $4125 damages by the lower
court. The appellants were Durham,
Fletcher and Coleman, an Illinois firm
Theaters Worse-There has
been a marked increase in immoral
performances at the theaters of Hay
ana accompanied by a general spread
of vice, since the American occupa-
ton came to an end. In order to
counterfeit these tendencies, a meet
ing was held Thursday night at the
residence of Bishop Estrada, where a
society for the prevention of vice was
formed.
Judges Agree-The judges Of
the superior court met yesterday at
San Francisco and adopted resolu-
ton providing that no contest matters
shall be heard in any of the twelve
departments between June Is and Au-
gust 81. 1t was arranged, however,
! that several of the judges shall be in
San Francisco to hear uncontested
cases while the others are enjoying
| their vacations.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-29
HARTMAN MAY
BUY KEY ROUTE
SOUTHERN PACIFIC DESIRES
BAY SHORE SYSTEM
COMPANY OBJECTS SOLELY TO
PURCHASING LAND
ACQUISITION of Line Would Permit Corr
poraton to Continue Vast De-
vclopment Work Near
San Francisco
tBv Associated Press.l

OAKLAND, May est became
known today in the financial circles OF
Oakland that the Southern Pacific rail
road is negotiating for the purchase of
the Key Route system of railways and
bay ferry.
The only hitch at this time comes
through the Hartman people not want
ing to take over all the thousands OF
acres of land which the Realty Syndi-
cate, owners of the Key Route SYSTEM
have in the vicinity
On the. part of the Key Route people
the negotiations are in the hands of F.
M. Smith, the borax king, and Frank
Ravens, the principal owners in the
Realty Syndicate.
The Key Route system includes the
property, the lines and the franchises
of the San Francisco, Oakland and San
Jose railroad and their ferry line across
the bay. The property is valued al
millions. Yesterday party of South
ern Pacific officials Travelled over the
system in a private car.
Plan for Electric Lines
The purchase of this property would
be- in line with the acknowledged plan
of the Southern Pacific to electric
the entire line of tracks it has in Ala
media county and adjoining sections.
The Key Route was originally
planned for trolley line to San Jose
1t runs now to Berkeley and through
Oakland, covering many valuable city
street franchises.
None of the officials of the Key Route
line or of the Southern Pacific would
discuss the matter today. BY acquir-
ing this line the Southern Pacific peo-
pie could permanently carry out the
line of improvement they have had un-
der consideration for some time.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-29
FEW MANUFACTURES OF
UNITED STATES EXPORTED
Imported Articles Said to Be One
Twentieth of Value of Home
Products

WASHINGTON, May 2S.-Less than
one-tenth of the manufactures OF the
United States are exported, while those
imported equal in value one-tWentleth
of that of home product, according to a
comparison of the figures of production,
expectation and importation of manu-
features made by the bureau of sta
tistics of the department of commerce
and labor.
These statistics show that the gross
values of the manufactures exported
increased from 100000 in 1850, or Sc
per cent of the total manufacturers, to
1896, 0000 900 in 1905, which was SO per
cent of the total. In, the same period
the imports of manufactures into the
country increased in value from S14S,-
900, 900 in 1850 to $576,000,000 in 1905, but
decreased in the percentage of the net
product of manufactures of from 2l.S
per cent in 1850 to 5.3 per cent in 1905.
In 1850 the gross value of the manu-
features of the United States was
S1O19, 100000. while it had increased in
1905, to SIG, 067 100000, and in the same
period the net value had increased from
1855, OOO, 900 to so, S92, 0OO,O 900
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-29
MORO BANDITS SURPRISE
AND KILL TWO SOLDIERS
Sergeant Receives Mortal Wound Dur
ing Battle at Outpost in the
Philippines

MANILA, May 2S.-Two private sol
diers were killed and a sergeant was
mortally wounded during a fight with
Moro bandits on the Roman river May
%, according to advices received here
today.
The Moros surprised an outpost OF
the Eighteenth infantry encamped near
Keithley and poured a Volley into the
soldiers before the latter could defend
themselves. The two privates were
killed instantly by the first shots fired.
Two columns of infantry are in pursuit
of the bandits.
The detachment that was attacked
had been engaged in the protection of
the friendly natives, inducing them 70
cultivate the land. They had intro
duced the double sentry system as a
precautionary measure, as attacks were
expected momentarily from the rowing
bands of maurauders that infested the
country
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-29
Bic Strike in washinaton

ABERDEEN, Wash, May 2S-Five
hundred sawmul hands were on strike
tonight. and it is predicted that this
number will be largely increased when
the mills attempt to resume work in
the morning. The strikers demand an
increase in wages, which the millmen
at a meeting today refused to meet.
Although no disorder Of a serious ma
ture has occurred so far, trouble is
predicted when the American mill at
tempts TO start tomorrow. The mill
owners say they have secured 500 men
to take the strikers places
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-29
Assure Friendly Relations

TACOMA, May 2S-Assurances that
there is no possibility of other than
friendly relations between Japan and
the United States, and that the people
of the land of the Rising sun wish only
to develop the friendship which now
exists were given by prominent repre-
sentatives of the Oriental nation at a
banquet here tonight on the birthday
anniversary of the empress of Japan.
The celebration was in honor of Rear
Admiral Ijichi and officers of the Jap
anese training squadron, now Visiting
American ports, and was given by r.,
Tanaka, consul of Japan. Rear Adj
miral Ijichi was the guest of honor.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-29
uriu at WASHINGTON

WASHINGTON, May 2S.--Baron So
tokichi Uriu, vice admiral of the Jap
anese navy, and Baroness Uriu ar
rived tonight and for week or more
they will be guests at a series of din
ners and receptions. Tomorrow night
the admiral will attend a dinner to be
given in his honor at Annapolis, the
affair having been arranged by the ad-
mirars fellow classmates of 1881.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-29
Allened SLAYER Convicted

SAN FRANCISCO. May 2S.-Fetel
nj Pe1assou. a dairyman, whose wife
died last August as a result of injuries
alleged to have been inflicted upon her
hv her husband with pitchfork, was
found guilty of manslaughter in Judge
Cabannis' department of the superior
court today. The jury added the recon-
mendation that Palassou be given the
maximum penalty provided by law:
Three of Palassou's children testified
he attacked their mother with a pitch
fork, which resulted in her death hVe
hours later.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-29
AUTOMOBILE SKIDS,
TURNS TURTLE AND
HURTS A. J. HUDSON

FRESNO, May ga. j. Hudson, a
well known automobile enthusiast, met
with a serious accident this evening,
and lies unconscious at a local SANTA
rum. In company with party of
friends he was returning to Fresno IN
his touring car, and shortly after turn
ing into Fresno street from the Kear-
new boulevard the car skidded and ov-
erturned. Hudson was pinioned under
the car, and when it was righted he
was found to be unconscious. An ex-
animation revealed a fracture of the
skull and two broken ribs With Hud-
tho latter's sister, Miss Alice Drisdale
of Cleveland, Ohio. They escaped with
out serious injury. Hudson recently
won the Toll House hill-climbing con-
Test
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-29
JURY OUT TWENTY HOURS
IN STRIKE GRATING CASE
Court viii Order Discharge If Verdict
Is Not Returned This
Morning

CHICAGO May 2S.-Ater thirty hours
of elaboration, the jury in the case
of Skinny Madden and his two associ-
ates, accused Of strike grating, had
not reported.
The jurymen will be kept together
until tomorrow morning. If no agree
ment is in sight then they will be dis
charged 1t is feared no verdict will
be returned.
No information is available as to the
balloting or the points of division.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-29
PRESIDENT TAFT STARTS
FOR YALE CLUBS MEETING

WASHINGTON, May 2S,-President
Taft left tonight for Plttsburg, where
he will speak tomorrow before the As
ISOLATED Western Yale clubs Mrs.
Taft was prevented from making the
trip by the recent breakdown. from
which she is said to be satisfactorily
recovering
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-29
Carmen on a Strike

PHILADELPHIA, May 2S.-Street
car conductors and motormen are on
strike. When the night men turned in
their ears early this morning they were
notified by their union officials that
strike had been ordered and that they
should not resume work until further
orders.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-29
prominent Men win Attend

PITTSBURG, May 2S.-"Yale Day
was celebrate today at the fifth an
nuaI convention of the Associated Wes-
tern Yale clubs. Tomorrow President
Taft Secretary Knox, President Had
ley of Yale and other notables will
take part in the exercises. Elaborate
preparations have been made to pro-
tect President Taft.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-29

CHATTANOOGA, May 2S,-Captain
j. F. Shipp and other defendants in
the contempt case growing out of the
lynching of the negro, Ed Johnson,
were arrested today. They were placed
under bonds of $1,000 each for appear
ance at the office of the marshal sun
day morning. The party will then leave
for Washington.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-29
Robbed of $15OO-Phillip 7

Hopkins, a sailor and money lender on
the cruiser Milwaukee, now at Puget
Sound navy yard, reported to the po-
lice of Seattle yesterday that he was
robbed Yesterday of $500 cash and
diamonds worth more than $1,000 which
he had concealed on the warship.
Hopkins had just made his collections,
it being pay day.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-07-27
sHERIFF,s SALE.

No. I2oo6-In the First Judicial Dis
trict Court of Caddo Parish, La:
]. D. Eubank VS. o. P. Anderson.
By virtue of writ of seizure and
sale to me issued in the above numbered
and entitled suit, from the Honorable
First Judicial District Court of Caddd
Parish, Louisiana, I have seized and
will offer for sale at public auction, for
cash according TO law,- without the BEN
eft of appraisement, during the legal
hours for sales, at the principal front
door of the court house of Caddo Par
ish, Louisiana, on
SATURDAY. AUGUST II, 1900,
The west half of lot 2o of the Looney
subdivision in the City of Shreveport.
Caddo Parish, Louisiana, as per map in
conveyance book IS" page 616. The
above property seized as the property
of the said defendant, and to be sold to
satisfy the amount specified in the said
writ, say in the sum of $4,000, with 8
per cent per annum interest thereon
from February 20, 1908, and all costs of
suit, including 10 per cent on said sum
and interest as attorneys fees.
J. P. FLOURNOY,
Caucasian, July IS. Sheriff.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-07-27
sHERIFFs SALE.

No. I2,o7o-In the First Judicial Dis
trict Court of Caddo Parish, La:
s C. G. Owens VS. George. Keith.
By virtue of a writ of seizure and
sale to me issued from the First Judi
cial District Court of Caddo Parish,
Louisiana, in the above numbered and
entitled suit, have seized and will offer
for sale at public auction, for cash, ac-
cording to law, without .the. benefit of
appraisement. during the legal hours for
sales, at the principal front door of the
court house of CadIo Parish, La, on
SATURDAY. AUGUST Fl, 1909,
Lot 22I of the Patzman Subdivision of
the City of Shreveport, Louisiana, to-
gether with all the buildings and inn
provements thereon. The above prop
.erty seized as belonging 10 the above de-
PENDANT and to be sold to satisfy the
amount specified in the said writ, say in
the sum of $3.50 with 8 per cent per
amlum interest thcfeon from February
6, 1908, and all costs of suit, including
10 per cent on said sum and interest as
attorneys fees.
]. P. FLODRNOY,
Caucasian, July I8. Sheriff.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-07-27
sHERIEFs SALE.

No. I2,oo4-In the First Judicial Dis
trict Court of Caddo Parish, La. /:
]. D. Eubanks vs. ]. Fred Tucker.
By virtue of a writ of feri facias to
me issued from the Honorable First
Judicial District Court of Caddo Parish,
Louisiana, in the above numbered and
entitled suit, I have seized and will of
fer for sale at public auction, for cash
according to law, during the legal hours
of sale, at the principal front door of
the court house of Caddo Parish, Louis
lana, on
SATURDAY, AUGUST Fl, 1000,
The south half of northwest quarter of
southwest quarter of northwest quarter
section ~, township II, range IS, less
land occupied by public road on west
line Of said tract, containing FIVE acres,
more or less, together with all buildings
and Improvements thereon. The above
property seized as the property of the
said defendant and to be sold 70 satisfy
the amount specified in said writ, say
in the sum of $4,000, with 8 per cent in
terest thereon from September 4, 1908
and all costs of suit, including 10 per
cent on said sum and interest as attor-
|ney's fees.
Caucasian, July Is. Sheriff.
]. P. FL0URNOY,
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-07-27
FISH TO FIGHT MOSQUITOES

THE Government Importing Top Min
ncws Into Panama Canal Zone.
The United States government is i'm
porting fish into the Panama canal
zone now to eat up the mosquitoes.
These fish belong TO the group broad
" known as top minnows, so called
from their habit of feeding at or near
the surface of the water, for which
the structure of their mouth and Eabit
of swimming, with a large portion of
the back out Of water, adapt them.
This habit, in connection with their
small size, is of especial value, as it
enables them to secure their food by
pursuing it across plants and masses
Of algas over which there is only a
thin film of water.
They swim in great schools, are very
small, never over one and half inches
long. and are found in stagnant, slug
gish and running water, either fresh
or brackish. The absence of malaria
In Barbados has been attributed to the
presence of these fish, by their destruc-
ti0n of the larvae of the malaria car
rying mosquitoes
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-07-27
sHER1FFss SALE.

Ne. 1876 In the First Judicial Dis
trics Court Of Caddo Parish, Louis
lana: Mccullough Weaver Lumber
Company vs.. 3. c. Richardson.
by virtue Of writ of feri facias to
the issued ID the above numbered and
engisIed suit. from the Honorable First
JudieiaI District Court Of Caddo Parish.
Louisiana, have seized and viii offer
for sale al public auction. for cash. ac-
coxdiaR to law. At The principal front
door Of The court house Of Caddo Par
ISL. Louisiana. during the legal hours
for sales. on
SATURDAY. JULY 81. 1909.
Lots Is. ia and 20 block 2 lots Is, 2o
and 90 block i; lots is. I6, II, IS. Io
ana 70 block lots Ie, ro. 90 q and Is
block 3: lots is ro and 90 block IL
lots is 70 and 20 block Is ii Queens
hoYough addition 10 the City Of Shreve-
port. caddo Parish, Ia, as p.r map re.
corded ia conveyance book III. page s85
q the recorders oEiice OF Caddo Par
isl. u. Also LOT II block s'Dg Colonial
Hill Subdivision of Caddo Parish, La,
~ per map recorded II conveyance book
Al. page IA. Of me records Of Caddc
Parish. las together with al the build.
inss and improvements thereon. Also
The Northwest quarter and IL ia acres
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-07-27

ITCH was the astounding state
ment of Horace Fletcher, the
~ world famed authority on foods
and feeding, made to the writer
in his last interview given before bis
departure for Europe. The originator
of the system, revolutionary in the
world of matters dietetic, known as
fIetcherism or fletcherizing, does not
consider his claim as to the elimina-
ton of crime to be at all sensational.
He is habitually and enthusiastically
retiring and conservative in his words
and thoughts As patient disciple or
moderation and founder of the new re-
ligion Of dietary righteousness" Hor-
ace Fletcher offers logical arguments
and cold facts to substantiate his
statement.
/ talked with him for several hours
In his sitting room in the Phipps model
tenement No. /, in New York's tragic
east side, where this kindly souled,
gray haired humanitarian has chosen
to dwell In preference to his costly
marble palace, Palazzo Saibante. on
the Grand canal, in Venice. palace
800 years old.
.The effect of a nations food on a
nations minds" said Mr.. Fletcher. lis
too easily ascertainable to be under
estimated. While / have never made
point of naming arbitrarily what per-
son should or should not eat, ! have
spoken and written as to how and
when and how much to eat Persons
who overeat in their consumption OF
meats become mentally different from
those who eat normally or who depend
chiefly or wholly on vegetable forms o.
diet. Large, abnormal quantities OF
meat as diet are for savagery. They
create an unnatural condition of mine
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-07-27
ESTRAY N0TTcF

Taken up by T. B. Moss, IS miles be-
low Shreveport, on Red river, and es-
trayed before the undersigned Justice
OF the Peace, the following described
property, to-wit One black COW and
calf, COW about S years old, marked
crop off left ear and underbit in right,
branded ]. S. on right side. One heifer,
white and brown spotted, 8 years old,
no marks IN ears, branded J. /. on right
hip. The owner OF owners will come
forward, prove property and pay costs,
or the same will be sold as the law
directs at Logic Lee on the 2Ist day of
august 1909. B. R. JACOBS,
Justiee-of the Peace Eighth Ward Cad
do Parish. Louisiana. 7-18
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-07-27
pELLAGRA.

And there IS one more worry tor the
common, ordinary mortal who may be
inclined to borrow trouble. From New
Orleans is reported the death in the
Charity Hospital of negress from
"peiIagra. There are two more cases
IN the same institution, white woman
who has been treated successfully and
viii recover. and negro who is expect
ed to die at any moment.
The disease it is said Is the result OF
eating cornmeal, fermented and musty,
which affects the intestines or bowels.
The disease is not indigenous to any
section or Cline and claims its victims
n Italy as well as in New York or IN
Louisiana. Perhaps pellagra by some
othername would be less startling and
better understood, but as said, it is pro-
duced by eating meal fermented and
musty.
How things change with time and
with men.
During the war, in the early sixties,
when provisions in the South were al
most invisible, and pinch of flour was
equivalent to its weight in gold, the
Confederate soldiers would eat gleefully
anything and everything on which they
could lay hands. Like the ostrich, the
stomach of Confederate soldier would
welcome anything to FIJI up. It is moi
possible at this date to compute how
much fermented and musty meal each
Confederate soldier yet alive today con-
stunned, sometimes mixed with little
long sorghum sweetening, but pellagra
was not then known. AS a fact, some
Of the Confederates fattened as pigs or
musty and fermented meal and PEI
soup filled with weevils, and there wa:
no complaint Of peIlagra. 1t may b
recalled that the Yanks, in prisons
we're fed, as were the Confederates
with corn bread of meal, sometimes
fresh and sometimes musty and fer.
nsenfed and they had pea soup witt
wecyils therein. which on reflection maj
have been productive Of pellagra Of
the boys who wore the blue.
Fortunately The Cornfeds in Virginia
in Georgia and in Tennessee had ne
time to reckon with peliagra. It was
fight the Yanks from day to day.
From q brief analysis it would seen
thar peIIagra only reaches for the poor
devils who eat meal or corn product:
which are fernented or musty and from
which the rich are exempt After all
pellagFa may be classified as the oppo
site Of appendicitis, the complaint Of th'
rich and those who can afford to pay fol
slsiilf4al operations.
From this observation may be drawn
this hopeful and reasonable conclusion
Tbs rich will not be subject to pellagr'
and TIE poor and the limited IN means
the fellow who tolls at hard labor il
the hot broiling sun. need not lose an,
sleep ever appendicitis Such com
plant IS not Of his class. Yet he is ad
vised to feast and fatten on the fresl
and wholesome products of fresh cor
Il within his reach