Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-28
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TO CONTROL TRUST-The Korean gov
ernment has established a department of
finance to control the salt monopoly.
SUSPECT ARRESTED-With the arrest
Of Joseph Miller, a Finn, he was about to
leave the Stevens hotel at Seattle, the police
believe they have thief who has been rob-
bing hotels along the Pacific coast for sew
eral years
EMPEROR ON TOUR-The emperor Of
Korea, accompanied by Count Ito. left Seoul
for their northern trip at o'clock yester-
day morning. The departure of the imper-
ial party marked by elaborate farewell
ceremonies.
ESCAPE FROM JAL-Charles Johns,
William Lloyd and John Peterson, arrested
at Portland and taken to Vale, Ore. to an
swer the charge of burglary at Nyssa, Ore.
broke jail at the latter place and a posse
is searching for them
RATIFY ELECTON-The election Of Jo-
seph L. Bristow of Salina, Kas., United
states senator succeeding Chester l. Long
for the six-year term beginning March
next, was ratified by the house and senate
in joint session here today.
ATTACHE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. John
Allen Dougherty, the American naval at
tache. left Toxic for Manila yesterday morn
ing. He was given a farewell reception at
the station. Among the hundreds who were
present were Admiral Togo, other naval Of
fcers and the foreign diplomats.
DIPLOMATIC FETE-The occasion of the
German emperor's birthday was marked
yesterday by a brilliant reception given by
Baron Mumm Won Schwarzenstein, the Ger
man ambassador to Japan, at Toxic. The
affair was attended by all the foreign diplo-
mats and the highest Japanese officials.
OPERATE ON BANKER-August Bel
mont, the banker, yesterday underwent an
operation for appendicitis in the Memorial
hospital in New York. The operation was
regarded as successful and the condition OF
Mr.. Belmont thereafter was satisfactory to
his physicians. No doubt is entertained Of
his recovery.
NEWLANDS ELECTED-United States
Senator Francis G. Newlands was elected to
succeed himself by joint ballot of the Ne
vada legislature yesterday. The vote was
unanimous and there was passed without a
tor Newlands' name for consideration as
the next Democratic candidate for the presi-
dency.
HAD 1000 SUITORS-Miss Frances Liv-
ingston of Chippewa Falls, Wis, who after
advertising for husband, received 1000
proposals by mail, is married to Louis Stru-
venez Of Dorchester. Since the couples en-
gagement proposals have been coming to the
woman by the score, and Mr.. Struvenez
states that if any more come they will be
returned unread to the sender.
MAGNATES DONATE-It has just become
Carnegie and Jacob Schiff and several other
well known fnancials and philathropists are
backing the bureau of municipal resources.
which was organized to investigate the city s
finances and alleged graft. To carry on the
work these men, with Mrs. Russell Sage
and others, have subscribed fund of $780,
OOO Mr.. Carnegie and Mr.. Rockefeller are
said to have donated $4,000 each
FOUND MURDERED-with his skull
fractured and a bruise over his right temple,
the hO0V Thomas Herman a nriVafp of
Company L. Thirteenth infantry, was found
in the lower bay of New York in pool of
back water. How the soldier met his death
has not been cleared up, but the theory is
advanced that he returning to Cover
nor's island, where his company is stationed,
when he was held up, robbed and murdered,
and his body thrown into the river
DENOUNCE RACE TRACKS-The con-
vention Of the Episcopal diocese, at its ses-
sion in San Francisco yesterday, adopted the
report of the social service committee.
which among other things denounces the
evils of race track gambling and urges the
clergy and laymen of the church to take a
more active interest in public affairs so
cleansed Of corru3tion.
GOVERNOR INAUGURATED - Governor
S. G. Cosgrove was inaugurated as governor
of the state of washington yesterday after
noon. The governor was taken from the
private car in which he travelled from Paso
Robles Cal, to Olympia to the state house
in an automobile, where in the presence of
the joint assembly, Chief Justice Ruskin
administered the oath of office. The in
auguration had been delayed two weeks on
account of the serious illness Of the gov
ernor.
ARRESTED FOR Observation-Disclosures
Rand, formerly employed as a clerk in a
Geary street hotel at San Francisco, was
arrested yesterday as he emerged, in a half
starved condition, from tunnel at Van
Ness avenue and Geary street, where he
had been concealed for over a week. Rand
is charged with having twice burglarized a
place of hiding, and the place has been
continually guarded by police since the es-
tablishment was last entered.
MAGISTRATE REMOVED Otto H.
Droege was removed from his position as
city magistrate of New York yesterday by
order of the appellate division of the sl-
preme court motion of counsel for the
Bar association of New York. The appellate
division on January found the magistrate
guilty of charges that he had released ille-
gally prisoners whom he had committed to
the workhouse and that an attempt had
been made to bribe a newspaper reporter
who was Writing a story rejecting the
magistrates judicial actions.
CHICAGO SNTOKY-Chicago is the smok-
lest city in the world, says the smoke in
spector there. This fact" he declares Of
ficially, "is proved by the reports Of the
health department, which show that fresh
air diseases are going up while other dis
eases are on the down grade. Smoke seems
to penetrate everywhere in Chicago. 1t gets
into the stores, warehouses, storage rooms
and bargain counters, and the ruin it
causes is enormous" The annual loss to
manufactured articles is said to be $780,
600 900.
WANT MORE PAY-Cook county, Illi-
nois, is in the throes of a peculiar labor war;
growing out of the attempt of the county
commissioners to raise their own salaries.
The county treasurer's force of 200 clerks
have walked out and refuse to do extra
work at the present wage scale Technically
all of the men now a strike. Be
cause of peculiar combination Of crcum-
stances, however, they will continue their
regular work today and tomorrow pending
a settlement The trouble involves an in
crease of 81 a day for men working three
hours overtime-an amount which the COM
mssioners told the men the county could
not afford to pay.