Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-10
AROUND TOWN
Noted Author 10 sneak

Noted Author to Speak
"A New Thought Easter" will be the
subject of Henry Harrison Brown,
noted author, Sunday afternoon at 3
o'clock at Blanchard hall.
Spraying Is Stopped
The county horticultural commission
has discontinued spraying fruit trees
for five or six weeks. The scale is
Matching and efficient work cannot be
done until the process of incubation
is complete.
Business College to Picnic
The Woodbury. will hold it's annual
picnic April 80 at Long Beach. Among
the features will be boat excursion
to view and study the San Pedro har
Dor. Capt. Fries has been engaged to
give an explanatory lecture and Is in
vited to accompany the excursionists.
Texas Sheriff Here
Sheriff b. F. Walker of Quannah,
Tex, arrived in Los Angeles yesterday
and will remain here until requisition
papers for the return to Texas of John
Holybee, charged with assault to rob,
are acted upon by Governor Gillet.
Holybee is held in the Imperial county
Jail.
To Vote on Bonds
bond issue of $4,000 will be voted
on I'm the Hudson school district of
Puente, May 81 according to notice
received by Mark Keppel, county SUI
perintendent of schools, yesterday
The money will be used for four
room building for grammar and high
school purposes.
Arrested for Operating Handbook
F. I. Newton was before Police JUS
tice Chambers yesterday charged with
a misdemeanor in operating a hand
book on the races, and was found
guilty He will be sentenced this
morning. Newton was arrested at 842
East Fifth street, his arrest making
the third one for similar offenses to be
made from this address
viii Lecture Sunday
]. B. Osborne the noted blind orator
of the Socialist party will deliver an
address Sunday evening at O'Clock
in Mckinley hall. His subject will be,
Saloons" Mr.. osborne has just re-
turned from a visit to Fresno, where
he engaged in controversy with
Eugene Chain, who ran for president
on the Prohibition ticket
Army Inspection Officer Here
Lieutenant Colonel Charles G. Wood
ward, inspector general of the Pacific
division, came from San Francisco
yesterday to make an inspection of
property in the custody of Captain A.
"A.
engineers He went to San Pedro with
Captain Fries yesterday afternoon to
inspect government property at the
harbor.
Child Injured
Ira Mills, 10 years old. an inmate of
the Children's home, fell from the top
of a chair while playing with other
children at the home yesterday after
noon and suffered a fracture of the left
arm. Young Mills was taken to the
Crocker street hospital, where the frac-
ture was reduced. He will remain there
until his condition permits his return
to the home.
Board of Pharmacy Finishes Work
The state board of pharmacy, which
has been conducting examinations for
candidates wishing to become regis
tered pharmacists, in the Fraternal
Brotherhood building, since Tuesday,
completed the work last night. After
closing up the details of the weeks ses-
sion they will leave today for San
Francisco, where similar examinations
will be held next week.
Given Quick Trial
Pedro Garcia, who was arrested and
charged with petty larceny February
23, and who demanded a jury trial, was
found guilty in Police Justice Cham
bers' court yesterday morning and
was given a fine of $40 or sentence OF
at 10 o'clock, the evidence was all in.
and the report of the jury given to the
court at 11:45 O'Clock, making a re-
markably quick record for jury trial.
Beats Wife
Fred Karn, a laborer living at 1745
East Second street, was before Police
Justice Chambers yesterday afternoon.
charged with battery, the complainant
being his wife. Karn pleaded guilty
and will be sentenced this morning.
According to the police, Karn had been
drinking heavily of late.- and yesterday
quarreled with his wife, choking her
and beating her about the face and
body.
Injured by Machinery
Carl Benedict, IS, an employe Of the
Cudahy Packing company, was hit on
the head, receiving dangerous csaip
wound, yesterday morning, when
sausage machine which he was operat-
ing broke and piece of the machinery,
whirling through the air, struck him.
Benedict was rendered unconscious by
the blow, and was taken to the receiv-
ing hospital, where the injury was
dressed Later he went to his home,
618 Alpine street.
Finds Wife Dead
Mrs. Anna Zerenner, aged Sc years.
wife of Carl Zerenner, was found dead
at her home 170S Santee street by her
husband when he returned yesterday.
Mr. Zerenner is employed at the Fred
Detmer optical store. Aside from her
husband, Mrs. Zerenner leaves one
daughter, Mrs. Helen Ungerland and
Otto F. Harms, son by former mar
rage Mrs Zerenner had been i'll for
several weeks. and 1t is thought that
death was caused by heart trouble The
coroner will hold an inquest on the
body, which is at the undertaking par
lors of Orr & Edwards.
Damage Suit Begun
Trial of the suit of George H Carr.