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The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-24
ONLY A PART ARE FRENCHMEN An Account of the Hysterical Meeting of the R0ynlties.--rhe Aged
 Women Who went About
 Catching Gypsy ChiId-
BY A. ". L,AMOUREUx.

Paris, Jan. 23.-When, a few weeks ago, fifty men of the French Foreign Legion deserted and held up a train in Morocco a number of news papers, both French and foreign, re- fsrred to the fact" that the Legion was made up of rather more than half of ,deserters from the German army. This is by no means true. The French Foreign Legion numbers 13,200 men In all of whom not quite four thous- and are Germans: and of these four thousand, not more than two thous- and are deserters from the German army About four thousand of the Le- gionaries are Frenchmen, and the re- maining five thousand two hundred are Austrians. Swiss, Englishmen, Italians. Spaniards. Belgians, and Poles in this order. There are also a few Servians. Bulgarians, and Rou- manians, but not many.
 The Legionaries get very little pay La daily dole of just over 8 penny but when they have served fifteen years they get a pension of S160 a year. It is a mistake to believe that France ill.treats the soldiers of its Foreign Legion. Discipline is, of course, fairly severe. It has to be so in a corps the soldiers of which are recruited as these soldiers are. Any
  teen and forty whom the doctors con- slider strong enough can become 8 soldier of the legion. and nothing about his past, not even his name, Is asked of him.
 Under Assumed Names.
 In fact very few soldiers of the Foreign Legion serve under their own names. Any citizen who has done his military service and who can swear I.t tr.N RaR q crime at the time of his engage ment may enlist ip the Foreign Le- zion, but he has to bring his papers with him. No Frenchman can do any thing in life from his birth to his death (both inclusive) without the production of his papers.
 E There are life tragedies in the French Foreign Legion more touching than any in fiction. The legion is a refuge for all those whom life has treated ill The case of one Polish Legionary may be cited. He had been Of a little parish near the German frontier, and had preached resistance against German and Russian despot- ism. He had been driven from his church and track ed by German, Aus trian, and Russian police until he fiin- ally took refuge in the Legion. But the love of his country and the hatred of Russia and of Germany were too strong and he returned to Russia. He was in St. Petersburg in January 1905 He is now serving his time in a lead mine in Siberia.
 Some idea of the methods advocat- ed by the small party of militant young ROyalists, whose lessons Mat his put into practice recently was ob- tained from speeches at a meeting of the Patriotic Youths" the other night, at which NJ. Henri Rochefort took the chair. The aged pamphle- teer was far from being the most violent in his language. Young M. Guy de Cassagnac, one of the sons of the late Imperialist politician, loudly congratulated the man who, like a true Gaul. plueked the beard of an
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-24
LET UP ON i, MILL0NAIRES Closed Season for the "Muckrakers. MIGHT DESTROY THEM New York Arrests One Out of
 Twenty. In ell Ns Less Than a44,ssa Persons Were Arre.tsd Dsriss The
 Past Year--Asnti-sneriaE
 Device Perfected.
BY LouGAacE.


 New York, Jan 23.-Miliionaires. Of which this city has more than fifty percent of all now known to be In existence In this country, may soon be classed with deer, dtfcks and other legal game in an effort looking to- ward their preservation. The proposal is made by .Appleton's. magazine to establish a closed season, similar to that which preserves other game, to protect during a certain number of months each year the unfortunate pos- sessor of fortune which runs into seven figures or more.
 Unless this Is done 1t Is asserted the millionaire will follow the buffalo and the fast disappearing water fowl into extinction as a result of the per- sistent manner in which he is now hunted by the indefatigable muck raker. The suggestion. however. is made. not in behalf of the millionaire, but instead for the benefit of the heve- lists magazine and newspaper writers of the country. As a source of maga- zine literature the man of money and his commercial enterprises have been such prolific money-makers for authors that the market Is in Q fair way to be overstocked with literature dealing with this subject As result 1t is now proposed to establish a closed sea- son of six months each year for at least three years during which the millionaire may not be muckraked nor, to make matters even, indulge In memoirs, "reminiscences and the like. Under such a procedure it is believed that the quotations on millionaire" articles will rise materially, as re- suit of which writers throughout the country will not be deprived of their best source of revenue. Unless some- tlfing of this sort Is done, 1t is as- serted in all seriousness. the multi millionaire so far as magazines go will soon become an extinct issue as a result of the present unregulated method of exposure.
 One Out of Twenty.
 One person out of every twenty was
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-24
Anti-snOrInE Device.

It has remained for a New Yorker to confer upon an expectant and long suffering humanity one of the greatest inventions which the world has ever known-nothing less indeed than an anti-snoring device. When the great deeds of the year 1908 are tabulated 1t Is probable that this patented machine which will make snoring impossible will lead all the rest. Up to the present this invention has not been placed on the market. The man who evoled it, while he has demonstrated it's efiicacy to his own satisfaction. mas not yet been able to find anyone cap able of manufacturing it. so delicate is its mechanism. Until such date as he shall be able to produce 1t com merciaIly the inventor refuses to dis close any details concerning his mec- hlne. In the meantime like other men of genius his path is a thorny one. He has been arrested and haled to court by a creditor who accused him of trying to escape to Brooklyn. The inventor protested however that he was merely going to look over the most promising field in the world, next to Philadelphia. for his invention and was accordingly released. The field for his invention Is practically unlimited, he claims since his first move, once the apparatus is on the market, will be to secure It's installation in everY berth of every sleeping car in the country He is said to have the back ing of various persons of means in this city who have been convinced Of the value of his invention and If this Is true the year 1909 is likely to mark
 the final elimination of snoring. The inventor has offered a reward to any snorer whom his machine cannot sup
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-24

One Out of Twenty. One person out of every twenty wa
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-22
WOULD REVOKE OLD LAW
TO AID WATER COMPANY
Annexation of San Pedro Makes the
Change Suggested Look Reason-
able to City Council Members

An old license law that has lain
forgotten on the city statute books be-
cause it has been long since there was
anyone on whom to enforce it, was
brought to the attention of the city
council yesterday by Attorney H. d.
Goudge. This law provides that ali
private water companies with an in
come of more than $4,000 a. month must
pay $3.50 a month license fee into the
city treasury.
This law was passed a number of
years ago, before Los Angeles had
acquired much of a municipal water
supply and was for the purpose of
exacting tribute from some private
water companies who were causing the
CITY trouble. But, since then, the city
has acquired the rights of these water
companies and the law was practically
obsolete until San Pedro was annexed
Attorney Goudge appeared as the re .
preventative of the San Pedro Water
company and told the council that this
company had an income of little more
than $1,000 a month but not enough to
warrant paying $3.50 month license
fee. He suggested that license fee
of one per cent of the gross income
would be proper and City Auditor
Mushet agreed with him. The council
ordered the city attorney to draw an
ordinance making the fee $40 a month
for water companies doing less than
$4,000 a month and $25 for all whose in
comes exceeded that amount.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-22
MILK INSPECTOR LOSES
POSITION AFTER TRIAL
Charge of INSTRUMENTATION Against E.
w. Hotchkiss Sustained by Civil
Service Commission

E. w. Hotchkiss, a milk inspector
in the health department, was dismiss
sed from the city's service by the civil
service commission yesterday. Hotch-
kiss was tried on charges of insub-
ordination.
The specific charge against the milk
inspector was that he refused to ac-
cept the position of chief milk in
spector when it was rendered to him
by the board of health George Hood
had been holding the position of chief
milk inspector, but the board was not
satisfied with dairy conditions and set
Hood to inspect a district and made
Hotchkiss his superior officer There
is no difference in salary between the
chief and his subordinates and Hotch-
kiss refused to accept the place.
The health department is managing
to get along without chief inspector,
but will meet today to appoint sue
cessor to Hotchkiss as all the in
spectors the salary ordinance permits
the health department are needed, es-
peclally during hot weather.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-22
ARlZONAN CAPTURES FIRST
PRIZE IN WORD CONTEST
Valentine ]. Fike of Tucson Winner or
Fitzgerald Music Company's
Piano

Intense interest has marked the Fitz-
gerald Music companys great "ol"
contest" the result of which is an
nounced today. In all. more than ooOo
papers were submitted, coming IRON
every part of Southern California Ail-
zona, and Nevada, while many OF tne
contestants lived in eastern and south
ern states. Statistics compiled by the
Fitzgerald Music company show that
no fewer than 100000 words were
submitted in the aggregate. Inc task ol
correcting this vast volume was done
bv a large force of educational experts
working in conjunction with the adVer-
tising managers of the local neWspa-
pers. The smallest list contributed
contained but five words. that being
the limit the sender could make out or
the letters making up the words 'Fltz-
gerald Music Company this was
exceptional, as the papers averaged
1000 words each. -
Valentine j. Fike, of Tucson, Arl-
zona, won the first prize-a magnlIl-
cent Gabler Grand piano. Mr.. Fike
sent in a list of 1882 words OF whlcn
287 were disallowed making total
of 1895 correct words. The upright
piano, given as second prize, went to
Henry Hoffman, 21S0 West Twenty
ninth place, Los Angeles, whose list
contained 1854 correct words. The
valuable third, fourth and fifth prizes
the last $125 in gold coin, went to Ed
ward A. Harrington. Gerald c. Coy
and Willard Chamberlain, all of Los
Angeles. Splendid scholarship, great
ingenuity and wonderful resource
marked the efforts of nearly every con-
testant. While this campaign was un-
dertaken by the Fitzgerald company
purely for advertising purposes, Its
educational advantages cannot be over
estimated.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-22
MAY HAVE A CURB ON
PUBLICCORPORATIONS
FINAL ACTION EXPECTED IN
COUNCIL. NEXT WEEK
TWO Plans, One with and the Other
Without Compensation, Will
Be Submitted to
Council

If persistency will produce a public
utilities commission against the
wishes of Healy and Clampitt and one
or two other members of the council
who fear to let the matter Of fixing
rates for the public service corpora
tions pass out of their hands, such a
commission will be a portion of the
Los Angeles city government.
Previous efforts of Councilman
Wallace and Councilman Lyon to
have the council name such a COM
mission have failed, and yesterday
Councilman Dromgold introduced a
resolution for a commission that met
with no opposition. 1t was referred
to the city attorney to draw an or
dinance to present next Tuesday. When
the ordinance is presented 1t is ex-
pected the opposition will develop.
Dromgolds resolution provides for
a commission of five members, three
to be named by the chamber Of COM
merce, the Municipal league and the
Merchants and Manufacturers associa-
ton and the other two by the council.
One of the members must be civil
engineer and one will be a secretary.
The secretary will be elected by his
fellow members and will receive a
salary Of $2400 a year. The other mem
bers of the commission will each re-
pected to devote their entire time to
looking after the public utility COM
panes, as will the secretary.
Next Tuesday the Municipal league
also will present an ordinance, on
which it has been working for some
time. 1t has not been decided definitely
whether the commission to be sug-
gested by the league shall be of three
or five members, but whatever the
number they will not receive compen-
sation. They will be on the same
plane as the police and fire and other
commissions now in the service of the
city government. They will be expected
to employ such expert assistants as
they will need, such as an engineer
an accountant and a secretary.
The council will be given the choice
of these two plans, and, if neither is
accepted, the Municipal league prob
ably will invoke the initiative.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-22
LYON BLOCKS FUND
FOR YIN. WORK
FIGHT OVER AoUEDUCT PLAN
ENDS IN CONTINUANCE
Result of Compromise Reduction from
$500 TO $4,000 Awaits the Re-
turn Of Councilman
Wren

Another struggle was made in the
council yesterday to give $500 to the
Y. NJ. c. A. to assist in the expenses
of the work this organization is doing
on the aqueduct, and had Councilman
Henry Lyon not switched from the po-
sition he held last week the struggle
would have succeeded. AS it was,
Lyon thought he had a revelation and
the only thing accomplished was that
the majority of the council, which
favors giving the Y. NJ. c. A. the en-
tire fund. voted against its own wishes
to reduce the amount TO $4,000.
1t was hoped this reduction was a
compromise on which all could get to-
gether but the three members who
were opposed to giving the Y. M. c. A.
anything voted against the reduction
and the five members who wanted to
give the organization the full amount
voted for it. After the reduction was
made the matter was laid over a week,
when Councilman Wren will be back.
He previously has favored the project,
and if he still is of the same mind his
vote will make the necessary sixth
needed to pass any measure involving
the expenditure of money.
Yonkin and Clampttt have opposed
consistently any appropriation for the
Y. NJ. c. A, Yonkin on the ground that
he docs not want to pay salaries to
men TO go up on the aqueduct and
teach the city employees how to play
games" although he is willing to de-
vote money to purchasing billiard
tables, bowling alleys and other amuse-
ments. Clampitt opposes it because he
opposes it. That is about the only
reason he has given so far.
When the matter was up last winter
Councilman Dromgold opposed it be-
cause he believed the money should
come out of the aqueduct fund. The
city attorney has since ruled that the
aoueduct funds cannot be expended for
this purpose and yesterday Dromgold
expressed himself willing to appro-
pirate the amount. It was he who
made the motion to reduce the amount
in order that a compromise might be
Lyon favored the project last week.
but when Yonkin told him yesterday
that there were several people opposed
to it he said he wanted further time
to consider it.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-22
DOG MUZZLE LAW TO
BE KILLED AT ONCE
ACTION TAKEN BY COUNCIL
YESTERDAY
Fine Legal Point May Keep the Pres
ent Law for "Puble Safety"
In Force Thirty
Days

While no determined body Of citizens
appeared before the city council yes
terday with ropes in their hands and
fire in their eyes to demand the re-
peal of the dog muzzling ordinance, as
had been anticipated, the council
acted without any such incentive and
ordered the city attorney to present
an ordinance next Tuesday repeating
the muzzle ordinance.
But in the repeating ordinance, a
fine legal point is involved. The city
attorney was not satisfied yesterday
that he could attach the emergency
clause to the repeating ordinance, and
unless this clause is attached 1t will
REQUIRE thirty days for the repeating
ordinance to become operative and the
muzzling ordinance will be in eitect
until it IS repealed.
The emergency clause says this or
dinance is urgently needed for the
preservation of the peace, health ana
safety of the community, and II shau
be in full force and effect Immediately
on publication" -.
The emergency clause was attached
to the muzzle ordinance because dan
ger from hydrophobia can be con-
strued as a menace to the peace,
health and safety of the community
but whether taking the muzzles from
the dogs can be construed as neces-
sary for the peace, health and safety
Of the community, unless the dogs are
to he considered a portion Of the COM
munity. is the point on which the city
attorney is not quite clear.
The ordinance, as it stands, applies
only to dogs running at large. Those
that are kept confined or led by a
leash in their owners hands do not
have to be muzEled.
The agitation against the ordinance
was the councils excuse for ordering
its repeal. Blanchard and Yonkin
we're the only members Of the coun-
ell who voted against repeating the
ordinance.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-22
WAY FOUND TO MAKE
FINE PARK ENTRANCE
CITY ATTORNEY SOLVES OLD
STREET PROBLEM
Two Lots Wide South Of Thirty-nlnth
Street Are to Be Condemned
for Use of Munich
pality

By a little expedient SO simple that
the councilmen couldn't help kicking
themselves on the shins and wonder
ing why they had not thought of it be-
fore, City Attorney Hewitt yesterday
solved the whole muddle of the widen
ing of Thirty-ninth street from Yer
mont avenue to Agricultural park.
Mr.. Hewitt suggested that instead of
invoking the park law the street law
be invoked and the entire amount of
property wanted for the widening of
the street be made a street and then
such parking could be done as was
deemed necessary.
This little suggestion saves at least
two years time in securing a suitable
entrance to Agricultural park from
the Vermont avenue side.
The council proposes to widen Thir-
ty-ninth street at this point 100 feet
by condemning land two lots wide on
the south side of the street. 1t was
first proposed to take land fifty feet
wide from each side of the street, but
later the proposition was broached OF
taking it all from the south side OF the
street and nearly Strengthening Thirty
ninth street west of Vermont. Only a
portion of this land was to be used for
street purposes and the rest put into
the park and that brought up the prop
osition of proceeding under the street
law to get the necessary land for the
street and then under the park law to
add the portion not needed for the
street to the park, which would move
the street 100 feet further south.
For two weeks the council has Ia
bored under the idea that all this red
tape would have to be performed and
that it would add two years time to
the proceedings. Yesterday the city
attorney set their fears at rest and
the city engineer was ordered to pro
ceed under the suggestion of the city
attorney. An ordinance also was
PASSED to condemn land on the Fig
ueroa street side of Agricultural park
to be added to the park.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-22

It's as easy TO secure a bargain in a used
automobile, Though want advertising, as It
used to he-and stili is-to secure horse
and carriage.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-22
Stanford Student Dies

Runyon of 312 East Santa Clara
street, this city, a mining engineering
sophomore at Stanford university, died
last night at the Livermore sanitarium,
after an illness of five months, brought
on by overstudy. He was 2S years
old, and his mother and a brother,
Clyde c. Runyon, Of Texas, survive
him.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-22

Don't simply allow It to die-that plan OF
yours Find little capital through adYertis-
ing.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-22
vlotIm Of raxIcab improved

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 21.-Rev.
Father Dennis O'Crowley, founder of
the Youths Directory of this city, who
was struck by a taxicab yesterday,
was much improved today, His Skull
was not fractured, as at first reported
bv the attending surgeons.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-22
FREF-Pianos G
ven Away-FREE

FREE-Pianos Given Away-FREE
No home need be without a plano-an
offer free and without cost Of any kind,
that all may participate in It's benefits
See page 3. part II.
9-22-28-2s-2s-sO 1o-s-5-7-1O
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-22
FREE-Pianos Given Away-FREE

No home need be without a piano-an
offer free and without cost OF any kind.
that all may participate in its benefits.
See page 3. part IL
La Junta tribune., 1909-10-02
End Of cantaloupe Season.

Geo. II. Thomas. who has been
representing the ii. Woods Commits.
sion Company. OF Chicago, at the
shipping station OF the La Junta
Melon Growers Association, during
the cantaloupe season Just closed.
left Thursday night on the California
Limited for his home in Los Angeles.
Mr. Thomas is highly pleased with
the cantaloupe returns thus far re-
ceived, and is Of the opinion that
the final returns will show the best
seasons average that the Arkansas
Valley has ever known. The lowest
returns thus far received were for
the shipments Of September 9Th, on
which date fifty-five cars went out OF
the Valley. The net prices received
by the growers on shipments Of Sep
tember 9Th were fifty-five cents for
standards and forty-nine cents for
ponies, and these were the lowest
returns OF the season. On the day
following. September 10th. prices
jumped to seventy-three cents for
standards and forty-six cents for
ponies.
Returns up to September oath
have thus far been received. and on
this day the price was seventy-one
cents for standards and forty cents
for ponies. Seventy-five carloads were
shipped from La Junta during the
season, and Mr.. Thomas is confident
that the average price for the season
for standard crates. will be in the
neighborhood OF seventy-five cents.
La Junta tribune., 1909-10-02
seventy-Nine New Ones.

During the month OF September the
great family journal enrolled seventy
nine new subscribers. We want
seventy.nine more this month, and
every month from now until the first
OF the year. We will then start the
year 1910 with larger paid up to
the minute subscription list than
any two newspapers in Otero county,
and that's no fairy tale but the plain
unvarnished truth.
We are making rate of twenty
five cents from now until the first
OF the year, which gives you all OF
the month of October free gratis.
Those who get =. In the game early
will receive the greatest returns for
their money. Those enrolled since
our last report are as follows: J. G.
Jewell, Montrose: j. w. Shemwell, of
Fairyiew. Colo; h. S. Beymer, Rocky
Ford Emma l.. West, Berwick. Iowa /;
Lou Gaynor, Pueblo; Edith l.. Lowe.
La Junta: X. p. Johnson, Yoeman.
Ind; j. E. Irelan, Delphi, Ind; c.
A. Watson, Fowler; Nellie G. Pearce,
La Junta; Grace Kilgore, Oberlin,
Ohio; G. IL. Dimick. La Junta.
La Junta tribune., 1909-10-02
cemmlss.. For Union Meetings.

The general executive board fol-
completing all arrangements and d.
recting all matters connected with
the union meetings are az follows:
Rev. G. r. Morley. Rev. E. A. Crooks,
Rev. T. l.. Young. Rev. r. H. Ayres
NJ. F. Miller. Rufus Phillips, Geo.
Mcneil, F. NJ. Stark, ]. A. Bushong
and John Crozier.
Committee on location-R. c. Todd,
Rev. Morley, Rufus Phillips.
Committee on music-N. S. Larsen,
chairman; J. T. Lendrum, c. r. Buck
ey, J. b. Sherman, VIM. Fiscus.
Committee on finance-G. A. XII.
gore. chairman; Edward vaupel. c. r.
Mapes. Rufus Phillips, DR.. Frank
Finney, DR.. w. M.Moore.
Committee on advertising-R. H.
Ayres, chairman; Harry Allen. c. NJ.
Harrison, Fred Scott, j. A. McCul.
Tough.
Committee on personal work-Rev.
E. A. Crooks, chairman; Geo. l.. Hess.
Mrs. c. o. Stevens, Andrew Lantz.
j. Riddering.