Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-02-16
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eral superintendent of the Colorado Mid
land has rendered his resignation to the
directors Of the road. He will be succeeded
by s. B. Miller.
EARNINGS DECREASE-The semi-annual
statement Of the Denver & Rio Grande rail-
road for the half year ended December 81
1908, shows a falling off in earnings OF
100000 from the earnings Of the similar
period of 1907.
DIES ON TRAIN-An unidentified man,
45 years old believed by the police to be
F. L. Woodruff, Atlanta, Ga, dropped dead,
supposedly from heart disease. on a Michi-
gan Central passenger train bound for De-
troit last night. He was preparing to retire
in Pullman sleeper when he fell dead.
FLOOD DAMAGE BIG-According to a
dispatch from Sacramento, printed in a
paper in San Francisco Prentiss Maslin,
secretary of the Sacramento drainage COM
mission, estimates the total loss from floods
in the Sacramento valley during last month
amounts to between $4,00O,000 and So
900, 600.
DOG CAUSES SCARE-Until an examina-
ton of the head Of dog which has been
on a rampage in Mount Clair Bloomfield,
pleted at the Pasteur institute, New York,
considerable anxiety will be felt in these
towns, for the animal bit two persons and
six dogs before being killed.
DIAZ SURE OF JOB-"President Diaz
will be president just as long as he wishes.
Our only regret is that he is in the evening
of his life. He is eighty years old and while
he is in the best of health it cannot be ex-
pected that he will be with very much
longer" This statement was made in New
York by Senior Jose Limantour, a brother OF
Jose we Limantour, minister of finance OF
Mexico.
RAID COCK FIGHT-Acting on a tip the
police of New Rochelle, N. Y, swooped down
on one of the biggest cock fights ever held
in Westchester county early yesterday morn
ing, and took in forty-nine prisoners, twenty
nine birds and an assorted lot Of parapher-
MALTA used in cooking mains Among the
prisoners was man said to be agent
for the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Animals at Mount Vernon. N. Y.
COBBLER ENDS LIFE-Carl Eggert, a
German shoemaker SIS years old, recently
arrived in Tacoma, Wash, from Oshkosh
Wis, committed suicide in a hotel there
about IL o'clock last night Eggert had
remained in his room all day and refused
to allow the door to be opened. While a
policeman stood a stepladder outside
looking through the transom and three
others stood Eggert shot himself
through the temple
MAKES FATAL LEAP-In the glare OF
electric street lights young woman shortly
before o'clock last night stood balanced
for moment on a third floor window sill in
her home in Chicago There, as her hus-
bands restraining hand touched her skirt
she drew a handkerchief before her eyes
and plunged to the icy sidewalk thirty feet
below. She was Mrs. Emma Betti wife OF
John Betti, fruit merchant and has been in
poor health for some time. 1t is said she
will die.
WANT THEM LABELED-What sort Of q
title should married man bear? state
law may decide this question, If the propo-
sition put up to State Senator Samuel A.
Ettelson Of Illinois goes through. The SEN
ator has been approached by a number OF
unmarried women who say that married
men are constantly imposing upon them
because it is impossible from plain intro
auction as Mister" to tell whether they are
married or not.
BANKER DISAPPEARS-A special from
Iaos n. M, says news has been received
there that Albert Twining former bank
president OF Asbury Park, N. j., sentenced
to six years Imprisonment for specula tin .
with the banks funds in mining property
IN TAOS county, has disappeared and that
MS bondsmen are liable for $4,000. The
case mas been in the courts for five years
ana last tuesday the supreme court ordered
IWlnlng to commence serving his sentence
TO SAIL LATE-Several days later thar
scheduled the United States army transport
fitzpatrick will leave New York for the Phil
ippines on Wednesday, bearing number 81
officers and men Of the field and COAST ar.
ttlIery. Among the officers who Will make
the trip is Major General William p
Duval. who has been ordered to Manila tt
relieve General 7. H. Bliss in command OF
the Philippines. The Fitzpatrick will co biz
way Of the Suez canal and will arrive al
Manila during the middle of April
TOLD HOW TO DRESS-Those of the
Republican committee who will make vi
the deIegatlon to act a. an escort to Presi-
dent Roosevelt on Inauguration day are in.
structed to attire themselves as follows
Dark citizen attire, high silk hats Gre
strlcted to the vintage of 1900, and gloves
Summer golf and lawn tennis shoes "not
in it," Neither are rubber boots or slippers
The personnel Of the delegation will be
made up at meeting Thursday. Direc-
ton as to attire was sent out yesterday.
rate among the native Indians Of Alaska is
very large and the population estimated al
10000 is rapidly decreasing by reason OF
contact with civilization, is the claim made
before the house committee on territories in
connection with the bill to give police pow
ers to teachers in Alaska. In a letter to
the committee the secretary of the interior
states fully three-fourths Of the native viii
lagos are unprotected from the criminal or
otherwise unlawful acts of white men.
BREAD-LINE PROTESTS-Recent agita-
ton in New York state against professional
hoboes, which has brought forth the sug-
gestion of state farm colony where tramps
can be forced to work, is now the subject
of discussion among those who nightly
gather in the Bowery bread line. Already
a movement has been started to head of
such legislation, If possible, in order to guard
the liberty of what Superintendent J. G.
Hallimond of the Bowery Mission calls the
worthy unemployed. He addressed 500 des-
titute men yesterday, urging them to action
MYSTERY SOLVED-The mystery of the
coat, hat, hand baggage and other womans
accessories found on the lake front in Chi
cago the night Of February has been
partly cleared up by Mrs. Gasaway pro-
prietor of a rooming house. 1.-The woman
came here about two weeks ago. said Mrs
Gasaway. "She said her name was Mrs
Lewis, and when 1 asked her if she was
employed down town she told me she had
no employment but she was sick and de-
sired a good rest. She went out for a walk
every evening and was gone usually about
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