Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-19
TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS

What 1t Means-The legal ex-
preston ANY one year" is presumed
to mean the calendar year, according
to a decision of the comptroller of the
treasury.
Body Identified - The body of
young woman found in the Will
lamette river Friday night has been
identified at Portland, Ore, as that Of
Miss Louisa Rice, who disappeared six
months ago. 1t is believed she COM
mitted suicide.
Woman Suspected - Mrs.
Peter Marotta, the AmeEica wife of a
prosperous Italian, was arrested in
Sidney, N. Y, yesterday at the direct
tion of the coroners jury, charged with
the murder of her husband. He died
suddenly from arsenical poisoning.
Weed Kills Child - Rodney
williams, aged 5, is dead and two other
children are at the point of death as a
result of eating weeds at John Day,
Ore. The children were playing in a
sheep pasture, and 1t is presumed they
took weeds for some garden vegetable.
Home Looted-While Mrs. C..
J. O'Kell was entertaining eight of her
women friends in her home at Alameda
Friday night at Sherman street and
Dayton avenue burglars, entering from
the rear of the house, ransacked the
building, securing jewelry valued at
$4,000.
Dies Under Train-Worrying
over the loss of her home, which was
destroyed by fire Thursday morning,
Mrs. Anna Huber ager sc years, de-
liberately walked In front Of swiftly
moving Southern Pacific train at Cray
croft crossing, half mile south of
Fresno, yesterday morning and was in
stantly killed.
Vacancy Filled - Governor
Gillett appointed 1. N. Hibbard Of San
Francisco a pilot commissioner yester-
day to succeed M. C. Erskine, de-
ceased. The governor also appointed
Judge John G. Gray of Oroville to fill
the vacancy in the superior court bench
of Butte county, caused by the death
of Warren Sexton.
Tickets Invalid-In its cam
paign to prevent the use of the United
States mails in connection with the
new national lottery of Cuba the post
office department has been given to
understand that the Cuban authorities
will not redeem any tickets sent
through the United States mails, even
though they bear the lucky number
Transfer Prisoner-Donald c.
Thompson, charged in many places
with the preparation of fraud by i'm
personating Lieut.. Earl Mcfarland, U.
S. A., now in the Philippines, and by
representing himself generally as a
naval and army officer, was delivered
by Justice Simmons at Norfolk Va, to
the federal authorities here yesterday.
Killed in Race - Harry L.
Buckley, a newspaper man of Phila-
delphia, who was carrying a message
from President Taft in a relay auto
mobile race under the auspices of the
Philadelphia Press, was killed yester
day afternoon when the motor car in
which he was speeding was wrecked
near Lebanon, Pa. The race has been
abandoned.
Demands a Recount-Argu-
ment was concluded yesterday on the
demurrer filed by the attorneys for
Francis ]. Heney to demand of Charles
NJ. Fickert for a recount of the Demo-
cratic votes for district attorney cast
at the recent primary election in San
Francisco, and the matter was sub
mitted to Superior Judge Murasky for
decision.
Conscience Hurts-One of the
the Canadian government in the form
of conscience money was received yes
terday by the finance department. An
anonymous donor has sent to the
finance minister of the dominion treas
ury $4,000 inclosed in a letter, stating
that the amount rightfully belongs to
the dominion.