Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-07-28
TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS

woman in Georgia who rides astride
| Will become a felon IL the bill intro
duced in the house Monday by Repre-
sentative Wright of Stewart county be-
comes a law. Wright never saw a
woman ride astride until he came to
Atlanta. He was shocked at the sight
of pretty girl in divided skirts on the
back of a horse.
Hen Finds Jewelry - When
jewelry valued at about $1,000 was stolen
from the home of William H. Skinner
of Lakewood, N. j.. in April, he Of
fered a reward of $3.50 for its recovery.
A hens scratching under the front
porch of the Skinner home has brought
the stolen jewelry to light, uncovering
the spot where the thief had, appar-
emily, buried the treasure.
To Form Syndicate-Barney
Dreyfus and Harry Davis, the latter a
large holder in the Keith Proctor
theatrical syndicate, are preparing to
form a syndicate to run out-of-door
hippodromes in every National and
American league baseball park In the
country, with the exception Of where
both leagues are represented in the
same city, when there will be one hip
podrome.
To Use Motor Cars-Extensive
tests of n1nfor cars for passenger ser
vice are being made by the Chicago.
Rock island & Pacific railroad. Cars
of six different types will be in service
on various parts of the system in a few
days. II practical experience bears
out the claims made for the cars, they
will doubtless supplant the locomotive
and train in various sections within
few years.
Settle Deposit Interest-lnter-
est on deposits of enlisted men in the
navy should be computed - excluding
the date of deposit and including the
date of discharge of the sailors. accord
ing to a decision of the treasury de-
partment. There has been considerable
diversity of opinion as to whether the
first or the last day should be ex-
Guided Both days cannot be included
In figuring the interest.
Indian Girls to Ride-Twenty-
five Indian maidens from the Carlisle
school in Pennsylvania, Monday,
reached Blue Ridge, a picturesque
mountain town about two hours ride
from Atlanta, Ga, to pass fortnight
in horseback riding. hill climbing and
general outdoor recreation. Accom-
panying them as their chaperones are
the daughters of John Wanamaker, the
millionaire, and John b. Stetson, the
manufacturer.
Newspapers Generous - Just
what the public wants to get in its
newspapers, it gets, according to Dean
Smaller Mathews of the University OF
Chicago divinity school, who answered
some critics of the press in lecture on
modern social conditions at the Chau-
tauqua assembly at Chautauqua, N. Y,
Monday. 1.-THE rank and file. of editors
and publishers don't want to do that
which the public doesn't want them to
do" said DR.. Mathews.
Decorates Horseman-C. W.
Crawford, a horse dealer of Newark,
Ohio, who arrived at New York on the
Red Star liner Zealand, wears the deco
ration of a Belgian chevalier. I'm the
last sixteen years 1 have purchased
} fully 100000 Belgian horses" said Mr..
Crawford, land in recognition of this
fact, King Leopold created me a cheva-
lier. He recognized the fact that had
) been an important factor in furthering
the great horse raising industry of Bel
gium.''
Sent to Asylum-Arthur Fal-
haber of New York, the 17-year-old lad
who has caused considerable excitement
: at Socialist and suffragette meetings
recently by his impassioned speeches,
has been committed to Bellevue hos
pital to have his mental condition OBJ
! served. In the last few weeks he had
become so enthusiastic over Sociaiistic
doctrines that he was in the habit or
collecting crowds about him at all
hours of the day and night until the
neighbors complained.
Fleet to Make Speed Test-One
of the features of the cruise of the
eight armored cruisers of the Pacific
la /, L. 60 nd wiz will ha q SnAe0
test over the 2000-mile course between
San Francisco and Honolulu. Word
was received at Seattle from Washing
ton Monday that the ships will be re-
quired to make the distance at an
average speed of eighteen knots. This
will be one of the most severe tests
ever given engines and boilers of any
ships of the American navy.
Rains Do Characteristic :
able loss has been sustained by the
railroads and traffic has been inter
rupted by the heavy rains of the last
few days in Montana. Near Cascade,
train, running between Great Falls and
Butte, was derailed by washout. the
engine and two cars were overturned,
but no one was hurt Fourteen cars
were piled up at Johns water tank on
the Great Northern, when a freight
| train went INTO tne uIICh oii 81 Pi0So VI
soft track.
Telephones Cut Out-The eX-
pense of furnishing telephones in resi-
dences of certain officers of the Public
Health and Marine hospital service
detailed for exclusive duty in connec-
ton with the examining of arriving
aliens, cannot be paid during the pres
ent fiscal year from the appropriation
for regulating immigration, says the
comptroller of the treasury. This FOL
lows a specific declaration by congress
that these officers can no longer be re-
imbursed for their telephones in con-
nection with the carrying out of their
medical inspection.
Concession Removed-Follow-
ing complaints from citizens who said
the game at Seattle fair was insulting
to loyal Americans, Director of Con-
cessions G. e. MattoX Monday ordered
closed a booth in the Japanese village
on The Pay Streak, at the Alaska
Yukon-Pacific exposition. This booth
contained an attraction known as
pulling Uncle Sans Whiskers." Three
plaster busts representing Uncle Sam
, were in the booth. 1.-THE whiskers" were
made of strings, which patrons would
pull out securing prizes according to
the numbers attached to the "whis-
kers."
NEW FRENCH CABINET IS
TO FOLLOW OLD POLICIES