Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-31
TELEGRAPHlC BRIEFS

OFFICIAL TOO LENIENT - The
Georgia senate yesterday voted to re-
move from office Chairman Of the State
Railroad Commission S. G.. McLendon.
McLendon had been suspended by
former Governor Smith on charges OF
being too lenient with the railroads.
TRADES UNION DISSOLVED-The
French court has ordered the dissolu-
tion of the trades union which the
postal telegraph and telephone employees
formed during the strike in Paris last
| May, holding with the law of 1884 as
its authority that workmen's unions do
not apply to state employees.
ROOSEVELT HONORED-The Uni
versity of Leipsic, Germany, which is
celebrating the fifth centenary OF it's
foundation, Friday conferred the de-
gree of LID, on Theodore Roosevelt.
Among others to receive degrees were
King Frederick of SaXony and Count
Ferdinand Zeppelin, aeronaut
FAVORITE HORSE STOLEN-Mat-
tie Allerton, entered Thursday in the
Centliver pace, was stolen from her
stall at the fair grounds of Fort Wayne,
Ind, during the night, while Swipe
Tom Covault slept undisturbed near
by. No trace of her can be found. She
belongs to Yves Stout of Indianapolis
and was the favorite in the betting.
CONFESSED SLAYER CAPTURED
Lewis Cundriff, self-confessed muir
derer of Frank McLain, a freighter,
was captured by a posse late Thursday
night ten miles east of Wisdom, Mont,
where the crime was committed. Joe
Cundriff the slayer's brother, over
whom the men quarreled, has also been
arrested. The men were taken to Dill
lon yesterday and lodged in the county
Jail.
RETURN TO WORK-The Japanese
laborers of the Waipahu plantation, on
the Island of Oahu, Hawaii, who were
working on a profit sharing basis when
the strike was declared, returned to
work Friday The plantation at Wal
pahu is where the strike had its origin.
Other strikers are scattering and the
leaders of the movement are gradually
losing control of the discontented Ia
borers.
MISSIONARY MISSING-That Rev.
James tBurks, a Presbyterian fold mis-
sionary, was robbed and murdered In
the vicinity of Howe, Ark, is believed
by his friends. Thursday Mr.. Burks
went to his apartment at the hotel at
Howe to prepare for trip to Mena,
Ark. When he did not reappear in
reasonable time an attache of the
hotel went to the room, found par
TALLY arranged trunk, but Mr.. Burks
had disappeared.
GONE TO FRANCE-There is no
confirmation of the report that Queen
Victoria of Spain and the Queen Mother
Christina have left San Sebastian for
Bayonne, France, but there would be
no surprise, according to Paris dis
patches, if such trip had been taken,
as the members of the royal family are
constantly making automobile trips
from San Sebastian to the nearby
points in Spain and France, including
Bayonne, Biarritz and Pau.
TO REORGANIZE SMELTER-Plans
are being outlined for the reorganiza-
tion of the Idaho Smelling and Refin-
ing company. If they work out, all
warning factions will be included in
the deal and the plant at Ponderay,
Idaho, will again be in operation. 1t is
believed that Greenough brothers, j.
Herbert Anderson and the prominent
men in the Fidelity National bank of
Spokane will cooperate in the new
organization. This would mean a set
tlement of the sensational Greenough-
Anderson fights in the United States
courts and the state courts or Wash-
| ington and Idaho.
GRIPS ARE ABOLISHED-At the
convention of the Western Federation
of Miners Friday in Denver it was
decided to do away with the ritual
| thus abolshing all use of grips, signs
and passwords for entrance to locals.
Membership cards will now grant ad-
mission. The date of the annual con-
vention was changed from the second
! Monday in August to the third Mon
day in August. The dates of the semi
annual election of officers in the locals
were changed from March and Sep
tember to January and July, and the
date for the ending of the fiscal year
was changed from March 81 to June 80.