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Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-14
ARREST BOGUS
ARMY OFFICER
IS ALLEGED TO HAVE PASSED
vALUELESS CHECKS
PRISONER SAID TO HAVE IMPER-
soNATED LIEUTENANT
Alleged Imposter Accused of Fleeing
Friends in High Society by
Getting Them to Cash
Spurious Paper

After being traced from city to city
across the country and back east again,
Donald c. Thompson, alias Lieut.. Earl
Mcfarland" alias Lieut.. D. G. Huff
man." wanted in Los Angeles on
charge of impersonating an army Off
Ger, was taken into custody by the
United States secret service agents at
Norfolk, Va, according to message
received by George Hazen, secret ser
vice officer, from John A. " iIkie, head
of the department at Washington.
The accused is alleged to have passed
numerous worthless checks by repre-
senting himself as an army off1cer and
associating with the wealthy class.
While in this city Thompson is al
legged to have passed a cheek for $65
on a local department store and later
a check for a smaller amount ON
Broadway shoe store.
Shortly afterward the matter was
brought to the attention Of Deputy
District Attorney Arthur Keetch, who
because of insufficient evidence was
unable to issue a warrant on the check
matter, 1t was turned over to Hazen
investigation.
As a result Thomas F. Heaney, who
answered the description of Thomp on,
was arrested in San Francisco. Heaney
was found to have impersonated an
officer, but was not the man whom
Hazen was seeking.
With Heaney in Jail awaiting trial on
a charge of impersonating an officer,
Hazen began other Investigations and
as a result obtained the information
that led to the arresA O., Thompson.
Although it is understood there is
strong evidence here against Thomp-
son, it is not known whether he will
be brought back for trial, or held in
the east to face charges there.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-14
BOARD TURNS DOWN OFFER
OF SUPERINTENDENT'S AUTO
Non-Borrowng Maxim Prevents Ac-
ceptance of Offer for Free
Transportation

A scheme for loaning his automobile
to the board of education provided the
board would pay for chauffeur and
for oil and gasoline was handed back
unwrapped to superintendent of Schools
Moore last night by the board of edu-
cation. Mr.. Moore stated there is q
great deal of running around to do at
present, and that an auto wohld prove
of great help to himself and his corps
of assistants.
Board Member Steddom recalled that
the board once passed a motion provid-
ing for the purchase of an automobile
"Yes, we passed that" said Mr.
Frank, dryly. quite a ways pack
tool"
President Scott said he was opposed
to borrowing anything for the use OF
the board, and the proposition was re-
fused
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-14
HOLLYWOOD PREPARES
TO CELEBRATE ADVENT
OF NEW TUNNEL ROUTE
Especial to The Herald. ]

HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 13.-The palatial
home and gardens of Paul de Longpre
will be the prettiest scene that has been
witnessed in Hollywood for some time
when the great reception is held there
September 23 The gardens are to be
elaborately decorated, and the booths
are to be things of beauty that will be
enjoyed by every visitor.
The final plans for the decorations
have not been made, but the young
women who have the matter under
charge are working on color schemes
for each. Mrs. II. e. Rodenhouse has
chosen red geraniums and lanterns for
her booth, Mrs. G.. H. A. Goodwin will
have the American flag as a prominent
mart in her decorations, Mrs. Charles
II Iippincott will decorate with wild
sunflowers, Mrs. j. Addison Jackson
will use white carnations and white
asters and Mrs. L. G. Somers will have
an oriental booth. Mrs. Rodenhouse,' S
booth will be called the tunnel
booth. -,
Mrs. Rodenhouse will have as her
assistants the Misses Carrie and Mabel
Lanes. Miss Bertha Miller, Mrs. War
rem Campbell, Mrs. C. e. Toberman,
Mrs. w. C. Booth, Mrs. G. II. Kent
Mrs. B. F. Maurer, Miss Rose Feenan,
G. II Hoag, Mrs. E. B. Phelps, Mrs.
Frances Rowlands and Mrs. ]. M.
Hunter.
assistants. Mrs. Thomas F. Cooke, Mrs.
Up. Ferguson, Mrs. C. Weston Clark,
Mrs. Gus Harper, Mrs. William Clay
pool Mrs. w. T. Reynolds, Mrs. Z. ID.
KimbaIl Mrs. E. r. Shrader, Mrs. w.
n. SNYDER. Mrs. Laura Squire and Mrs.
w. M. Kellie.
Those assisting Mrs. G. H. A. Good
win will be Mrs. Cassius Smith, Mrs.
Robert Young. Mrs. w. H. Davies, Mrs.
NJ C. Mason. Misses Leila and Mary
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-14
SAN FRANCISCAN KILLED
IN STREET CAR COLLISION
Trolley Crashes Into Wagon and One
Man Meets Death--Another
Injured

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 1S.-Frank
Hale was almost instantly killed and
George Cart was probably fatally in
jured today when a wagon in which
the two men were riding was struck
by Sutter street car of the United
Railroads at First avenue
Hale was hurled some distance and
struck on his head. Cart sustained a
fractured shoulder and several inter-
nal injuries.
The men were employed by con-
fracting company and were unable to
get the wagon off the track before the
rapidly moving car struck the vehicle.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-14
DELEGATES TO MINING
CONGRESS ARE CHOSEN

SACRAMENTO, Sept. 13.-Governor
Gillett has appointed the following men
as delegates to the American Mining
congress at Goldfield, New, September
q to October 2:
Russell L. Dunn of San Francisco,
Alexander Brown of Calaveras, John L.
Henry of Oakland and Francis Drake
of San Francisco. Others are to be
selected later.
A. L. Crane and Morris Brooke of
Sacramento and T. b. Gibson of Wood
land have been named as delegates to
the international live stock show at
Chicago December 6-1S, and also to the
United States land and irrigation ex-
position In the same city November 20
to December T.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-14
CROPS AND BARNS NEAR
oxNARD ARE DESTROYED

OxNARD, Sept. 13.-Many thousands
of dollars worth of property was de-
stroyed by fire in the hills along Las
Posas valley today. and but for active
work of farmers many homes would
have been lost. The first word of the
conflagration was turned in by phone
from the home &C Mrs. Hitch Farm
ers were summoned by telephone and
saved this home.
The flames swept along the foothills,
however, and destroyed beans, hay and
barns until it had reached the end of
the row of hills. With a west wind
coming up in the afternoon to take the
place of the furious east wind that had
prevailed the flames were famed into
action again at the point in the hills
where the fire had begun, and it is
again gaining headway tonight,
threatening thousands of tons of hay
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-14
CARDINAL DOES NOT THINK
LIQUOR CAN BE SUPPRESSED
PreIate Gibbons Says Prohbitionists
Will Not Succeed in Their Legls-
Iaticn for Virtue

BALTIMORE, Nd, Sept. 1s.-"Pro-
hibitionists all over the country arc
making an effort to suppress the use
of Intoxicating liquors, and while 1
hope they will succeed, ! don't think
thev will. Reform must come from
within and not from without. You cam
not legislate for virtue"
Thus spoke Cardinal Gibbons yes
tcrday while addressing confirmation
class.
''I believe" he continued, "that there
is no vice like that of intemperance, no
vice that is followed by such dire re-
suits. It's effects are found every
where. and sometimes even among
churchmen. No church should toler-
ate a clergyman who drinks"
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-14
FIVE CONGREGATIONS SWEEP
THROUGH HILLS AND VALLEYS
Much Property Destroyed in the Vicinity OF
Oxnard-Fire Rages on Summit OF Mt.
Pacifico-Three Other Alarms Re-
ceived by Forest Rangers

and scores of homes near Fairview
Epworth and Moor Park.
Among the losses caused by fire thus
far are the barn and hay. fences and
crop of Henry Schroeder, fifty tons oi
hay and crop of beans of John Car
ter. part of Frank Noyes' bean cror
and barn damaged, bean crop of Jo-
seph Cananas and hay and fences oil
Jim Hitch.
The flames acted q -ickly, but were
kept from burning many homes by ac-
tive work of force of fifty farmers,
who headed it at every turn.
The home and crop of Joshua Stock
ton were destroyed. 1t is estimated tina
loss already is about $4,000.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-14
rn Run Eine Steamer

VICTORIA, B. c.. Sept. 1s.-The
latest report with regard to steamship
service for the Grand Trunk Pacific is
that the company is negotiating for
two fine turbine liners, the Cairo and
the Heliopolis. for service in the Pa
citic. The report comes from a local
shipping man visiting Glasgow.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-14
In stYle

Patience-Has she got a pretty fig
ure?
Patrice-I guess so; 1 heard a man
in the garage say she'd just got a
new limousine body.-Yonkers States
man.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1909-02-02

in Cairo. Mayor Parsons asked for a
conference Sunday night. Now, a
conference Is just what the Paducah
health authorities asked of Mayor
Parsons a month ago, when smallpox
first began to be imported from Cairo.
At that time Mayor Parsons courte-
ously advised Paducah health authori-
ties to look after their own city, as
he thought Cairo was getting along
all right, without any conference or
cooperation. Mayor Parsons appar-
emily did not care how many of his
people died OF smallpox, or how the
surrounding country was infected, so
long as he could keep Cairo's sore
hidden. His desire for a conference
now, is not so much to get rid of
smallpox. as to have the quarantine
lifted. Mayor Parsons may be a most
excellent executive in many respects,
but he is an ignominious failure in
the smallpox situation.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1909-02-02
Tobacco Consumers Look to Ken
lucky.

Tobacco Consumers Look to Ken
lucky.
Washington, Feb 2.=Tobacco con-
sumers over great part of the world
Will continue to look, as they have
for some time past, to Kentucky and
the bordering states for their supply
of the fragrant weed, according to a
bulletin issued by the department of
agriculture on the cultivation of to-
bacco in Kentucky and Tennessee.
Kentucky and the bordering states
produce annually 376,647,OOO pounds
of tobacco, being more than one-half
of the production Of the United States
and one-sixth of the entire worlds
production. This tobacco Is of a
quality peculiarly confined on ac-
count OF soil and climatic conditions
to the area named.
I'VE may expect" says the report,
"that a great part of the world win
continue to look to this western sec
ton for supplies for its consumption.
The dark tobacco district, inducing
Kentucky, part OF Western Tennessee.
a small area of Missouri, southern
Illinois and southwestern Indiana,
produce a dark, heavy type, which is
exported 10 European
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1909-02-02
SOME STORIES
AROUND TOWN

Ten minutes in a blizzard with the
weather trying to hug the zero mark
and clad only in his pajamas was the
experience of a well known business
man Saturday night, and II is need
less to say that he does not care to
repeat any part of the performance.
While tucked snugly In his berth this
Paducahan was awakened by a noise
that seemed to emanate from the
front door. As he lifted his head
from the covering he realized forci-
bly, that it was cold out, and right
then he decided IL anyone wanted to
get in, he would have to make a
louder noise and more tempting offer.
Right then he did not care IL burg
lars ransacked the house so long as
they did not pull him out OF bed.
The noise continued, and thoughts
of some possible urgent visit urged
him out of bed, and down stairs. The
door opened, but nobody was there.
Not doing things by half he stepped
out onto the porch and looked around
the corner of the house. He shivered
and started to return. Bang! went
the front door, and the night latch
snapped. The electric light on the
porch burned brightly, and the cabs,
returning from the early morning
trains. passed the house. II must
have been ludicrous sight for the
cabmen to see a man, dressed In
pajamas, standing at the front door
beating the panels, and his teeth
After ten minutes of constant
knocking and calling the family was
awakened, and then the inquisitlve
person was let in. The remainder OF
fha m srhf <Uo1 -u1,u< IL A. ~ m o. ,,.xf
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1909-02-02

Bad boys hau better beware or they
will be made victims of the rod.
Growing right in the court house
yard is a plentiful supply of young
Hpber. and exceedingly touch switch
es. which County Judge r. T. Light
foot has recommended, when applied
properly, as better remedy for in
corrigibles than term in the reform
school. Last week three young negro
boys were the victims of the lash,
and 1t proved to the county officials
that the plants good one as well as
an inexpensive one.
To supply the court house lawn
with an abundance of shade where
old trees have died the county tidge
had number of young trees set out
last year. These have produced shoots
which make desirable whipping rods,
and when applied vigorously are as
good as the lashes used by the night
riders.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1909-02-02
WHAT MR.. DORIAN DIDN'T SAY.

nI1Al ~ lfOhlAAN Oh .
IL 1t was not known at the News
Democrat, when it made the state
ment, which follows, that there was
not a scintilla of truth in IT.; at least,
a. must have been known there that
the authority for the statement was
vague:
There is cause for surprise, too.
jn the request of Mr.. Dorian that he
be allowed another months salary as
treasurer. as It is a weli remembered
fact that at the last request Of this
nature made by him he stated pub
licly that il his salary for December
was allowed and the circuit judge de-
clared Mr.. Walters the legal treas
urer he would step down and out and
never repeat the request"
The News-Democrat certainly can
not quote authority for that state
ment Since the beginning of this
controversy. The Sun has repeatedly
stated that neither side would rest
under defeat below the court of APP
peals, and on January the News
OeInocIdt saiu. bOtn SldeS eX
pressed a wish for an eanly trial OF
the case and 1t was announced that
the case might be pushed through
the court and also the court of APP
psals within the next two OF three
weeks"
Again when the case was decided
in circuit court, 1t was announced in
both papers that Mr.. Dorian had APP
pealed, and no comment was made
by the News democrat. A search of
its columns since the controversy be-
gan falls to reveal any quotation from
Mr.. Dorian. We are afraid that al
legged statement of Mr.. Dorian's is
hike the young housewives pudding;
made out of its own head"
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1909-02-02

e. Keith dies lad Cloyerport.

]. E. Keith dies at Cloverport.
Henderson machine works burns.
j. Z. Keith, ~, died at Cloyerport
John ID. Mcleod postmaster at Ha-
eel.
Wilson Bros. buy Henderson chair
factory.
Mrs. Kate Farley. "A, died at Hen.
derson.
Night riders warn Union county
farmers. -.-
Wife of DR.. R. N. Whitehead die.
at Fulton.
Mrs. Penelope Barron, SC, died al
Iwensboro.
Joe Logon died OF heart disease
at Hickman.
George Craig. &c, dropped dead in
Bath county.
George Robert Mason postmaster
at Folsomdale.
Mrs. Mary Green. Mayfeld, caught
in folding bed.
Hundred conversions at a Baptist
revival at Hyden.
southern train stuck in snow drift
near Georgetown.
Law and Order league with 800
members at Providence.
Young lambs killed by intense cold
throughout central Kentucky.
Nathaniel Workman's two children
burn in home in Bath county.
A. II. Carson and F. W. Reed, de-
serters, surrender at Danville.
Alonzo Chasteen, farmer of Fay
cite, died of neuralgia OF the heart
Trolley connections between Louis
vile and Cleveland, o., almost COM
pleted.
Governor RENTS fine of Berea col
lege. which is preparing TO conform
to Day law.
Mrs. Douella Wilcox st. Clair. dean
of women's department of Transyl-
vania University, rendered her reslg-
nation to become president of Chris
tian College, Columbia, Mo.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1909-02-02

The phrase. California blue laws. -
has an incongruous sound. California,
of the ''forty-niner'' and the vigi-
lantes; California. the home OF the
prize fight and municipal graft. has
outdone Hughes. Not only has an
anti-race track gambling law been
enacted, but anti-prize fighting and
anti-several other kinds of sport
legislation are to follow.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1909-02-02


year. The license committee was
divided TO ON all these questions.
As there we've nc motions before the
board. the question was dropped. on
motion Of Councilman Young, A. NJ.
Iaeyison a company was refunded
$50 paid for bottling license.
School Work.
The finance committee Of last yea,
recommended that Jack Cole be
awarded the contract for making the
sanitary improvements at the Lee
and Lincoln school buildings. The
bid was s2.195. George A. Ross hia
s2.153 and his bad was the lowest
Councilman Duvall made the motion
that this board award the contract to
the lowest bidder and Krentzer sec
onded the motion. Mr.. w. T. Miller
a former alderman and a member OF
the finance committee last year. in
formed the board that Mr.. Coles con-
tract conformed better with the speci-
foations furnished by the city than
Mr.. Ross. The action of the finance
committee. in awarding the contract
10 Mr.. Jack Cole WAS ratified.
Clerk Maurice Mcintyre asked tn
board to relieve the Bankers Surety
company his bondsmen last year. be-
cause he had given his bond In an
other company. the Empire state.
Councilman Bower asked for infor-
nation and Clerk Mcintyre told him
II was good company. Councilman.
Bower asked the clerk what authority
he had. Mr.. Mcintyre said he had
tho dope" and produced a smaA
book giving ratings of both compa-
mics. When the question was put 10
a vote Councilman Duyall refused t.
vote, because he had been out and
did not know what the board wa,
voting on Councilman Duvall was
excused from voting. Clerk McIn
tyre was a little excited when Mr..
Duval refused to vote and said thai
he couldn't do him any harm by not
voting The Bankers Surety com
pany was relieved OF Mr.. McIntyre's
bond by vote OF IL yeas.
City Treasures Report.
City Treasurer John J. Dorian
made his monthly report for January
showing on deposit February l to the
city s12,351.30. The report was re-
ceived and filed.
Mr.. George Walters reported dhat
he had a deposit of s24,5S1.24 In the
city's name. The report was receives
and filed.
Mr.. William Simmons, of Colun-
bia, Tenn, was granted a deed TO A
lot in Oak Grove cemetery from John
T. Horn. Mrs. G. T. Rice. Mrs. Nina
Ragsdale and Mr.. w. II. Gregory
were granted deeds to lots In Dan
Grove cemetery.
Mr.. Martin Yopp requested that he
be relieved from taxes on two lots h. |
'old the school board in 1907. The |
request was referred TO the board OF
City Attorney A. Y. Martin askeI Il
hat a committee be appointed to
hurry up the compilation OF the clt
ordinances Mr.. Martin stated tina,
ne ordinances are now scattered IN
m parts of the city Offices, and II Is
to find an of them. Coun-
ibman VanMeter moved that a COM
nittee of three be appointed to act
With a committee OF three from the
PIPER board and see II the committee
'ou.dn't hasten the compilation of
he ordinances
President Al Foreman appointed
VanMeter, Young and
ally on the committee.
All members were present. They
we're: Councilmen Foreman, Bower.
)uyall, Hannin. Kreutzer, Lally,
layer, McCarty. vanMeter, Wanner,
Wilson and Young.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1909-02-02
F aRI RRRGn lSRs

The conditions and which produce rheumatism
healhful vegetable remedy the surest and safest The disease
brought about by the accumulation OF irritating
property IN the blood This causes weakening and souing the
which then becomes unfit for nourshng the body
muscles
Rheumatism. To
other minerals adding poison
weak diseased blood apping of its remaining vitality perhaps
making
for Rheumatism is s. s. II is remedy this disease
from heahul vegetable ingredients extracted from
and bas OF the forest and fields down into the blood and
Of the
circulation and restores health suffering
this painful disease There
with mineral medicines that
Rheumatism and any medical advice free
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1909-02-02

Since the loss of the Republic
steamship lines are improving and
safeguarding their wireless apparatus
the travelling public win benefit incl
dentally. People have been killed
before: but the loss OF a million and
a half dollar ship must not be jeop-
andized by lack of precaution.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1909-02-02
AN oDIoUs COMPARISON.

L
were talked about" but because w
were not mentioned in the argument
Iof the Lexington school board for al
increase of 100000 in its apportion
ment. Owensboro. Covington ans
Newport are compared with Lexing
ton in the report. and when their fig
ures are reviewed, II is easily under
stood why Paducah was not men
toned i'm that class.
II is sufficient to refer 30 the fact
that Owensboro. with 1880 popula-
ltion and school enrolment of
'2,776, allowed her schools last year
s101. 79S.29, while Paducah, with g.
264 pupils, allowed her schools $751;
679.53. The comparison Is more dis
paraging than that under analysis.
because of Paducah's allowance s21,-
2976O was contributed by the state;
and of Owensboro's allowance only
s9.43s.4O was contributed by the
state.
After that cold plunge have YOU the
hardihood 10 go on? Lexington gives
s100,752.64; Covington gives s124,-
265.S7; Newport gives s121,S11.1S.
They are all in the second class cities
and not one of them has an enroll
ment equal to Paducah's. Lexington
has 5.072 pupils; Newport 1927;
Covington 5,257. This makes an all
lowance for each pupil enrolled: in
Owensboro $36.25; in Lexington
s1s.ss; in Newport sS3.5s; in Cow
ington $23.63-IN PADUCAH 1920.
Those figures may be applied to
every conceivable angle and eleva-
ton of the situation, and they look
bad-mighty bad.
The conclusion of 1t all Is that
whatever difference there is between
Paducah's schools and the schools of
other cities in the state, is due to the
relative amount of money spent. II
We are satisfied with our schools as
they are at present, 1t is significant
that Lexington, which spends twice
as much as We do, desires to spend
four times as much. and Owensboro
is boasting of her school appropria-
tion. II is also significant that the
school authorities in Paducah, who
ought in good reason to be satisfied
IL we are, are not satisfied with the
schools, although they are. perhaps,
as good as they can be made for the
money.
There are two things RADICAL,
wrong g; property is under-assessed ami
the school rate is too low. One of
these conditions can be remedied by
ourselves next year; the other must
be remedied by the legislature.
The schools were the subject OF
hearty discussion just prior to the
last election, and The Sun expressed
the fear then, that people would stop
talking after the bond issue PROPOSE
ton was aid TO rest. The Legislature
will meet a year hence, and in order
to get an amendment of the charter
of the second class cities, we must
consult the other three, Lexington,
Covington and Newport. We shall
accomplish nothing ii we wait until
the legislature meets. Now is the
time to get a few mays" substituted
for the short and ugly must" in the
charter.
Then, may be, other cities will
deign to mention Paducah in their
reports
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1909-02-02

Get up john" called the father
|of a school youngster from the foot
of the stairs, "or you will be late to
school,"
"Geei" grunted Johnny, as he roll
ed back the cover and prepared TO
make a fire., at gets late awful early
these mornings"
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1909-02-02
GMELICH ELECTED
To Once OF Lieutenant Governor OF
Missouri.

Jefferson City. Mo-. Feb. g.-The
joint session OF the Missouri general
assembly this afternoon declared
Jacob +. Gmellch elected Lieutenant.
governor OF Missouri No vote was
taken. the speaker declaring the re-
suit when the recount OF the COM